14.04 - gnome terminal missing after installing virtualbox

Question

I'm pretty new to Ubuntu having switched over from Windows. I was playing around with Oracle Virtualbox but after I installed it there were a few problems when I rebooted my laptop. The unity launcher and dash had disappeared and the ctrl+alt+t doesn't bring up the default terminal but something called XTerm instead.

I managed to fix the missing launcher/dash but I'm still having issues with the terminal. It doesn't even show up when I try to run a search for it. Any help with this problem would be much appreciated!

Also, I've since uninstalled virtualbox.

Solution 1

So after running the two commands that @steeldriver suggested, I realised that I'd somehow managed to totally uninstall the gnome terminal from my laptop.

sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

solved this problem for me.

Solution 2

I've also lost the installed terminator and console on my ubuntu 14.04 after installed virtual box. The Ctrl + Alt + t helped me to open the default console and reinstall the gnome-terminal

Comments

[steeldriver]

Does the package itself show up if you do dpkg -l gnome-terminal (in the xterm)? What about update-alternatives --list x-terminal-emulator?

[user2463465]

@steeldriver The first command brings up Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge and the second lists paths to what looks like xterm variants? There's koi8rxterm, uxterm, lxterm and then just xterm

[user2463465]

I actually think I somehow managed to totally uninstall it. sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal has brought it back :)

[Wilf]

@user2463465 - in that case add it as the answer below :D