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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I wanted to upgrade my boost from 1.58 to the latest version because one of the programs I was planning to use requires. One thread suggested that I need to uninstall the older version first before installing a the newer version. So I did using:



sudo apt-get remove 'libboost-.*'


Little did I know that hitting enter and yes was the stupidest thing to do. I'm not unfamiliar with removing programs so I did not read what is what on the terminal (which programs were to be removed) and my fingers were really faster than my eyes. So when I noticed that the programs in my dashboard (e.g. libreoffice) started to disappear I thought I had to stop the run, which I did. However, the damage has been done. Upon restarting my computer, it been stuck on the ubuntu splash page with the five dots still changing their colors. It's like that for almost 2 hours now. I'm stupid and I badly need help. Oh, my poor data.



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    I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I wanted to upgrade my boost from 1.58 to the latest version because one of the programs I was planning to use requires. One thread suggested that I need to uninstall the older version first before installing a the newer version. So I did using:



    sudo apt-get remove 'libboost-.*'


    Little did I know that hitting enter and yes was the stupidest thing to do. I'm not unfamiliar with removing programs so I did not read what is what on the terminal (which programs were to be removed) and my fingers were really faster than my eyes. So when I noticed that the programs in my dashboard (e.g. libreoffice) started to disappear I thought I had to stop the run, which I did. However, the damage has been done. Upon restarting my computer, it been stuck on the ubuntu splash page with the five dots still changing their colors. It's like that for almost 2 hours now. I'm stupid and I badly need help. Oh, my poor data.



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      I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I wanted to upgrade my boost from 1.58 to the latest version because one of the programs I was planning to use requires. One thread suggested that I need to uninstall the older version first before installing a the newer version. So I did using:



      sudo apt-get remove 'libboost-.*'


      Little did I know that hitting enter and yes was the stupidest thing to do. I'm not unfamiliar with removing programs so I did not read what is what on the terminal (which programs were to be removed) and my fingers were really faster than my eyes. So when I noticed that the programs in my dashboard (e.g. libreoffice) started to disappear I thought I had to stop the run, which I did. However, the damage has been done. Upon restarting my computer, it been stuck on the ubuntu splash page with the five dots still changing their colors. It's like that for almost 2 hours now. I'm stupid and I badly need help. Oh, my poor data.



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      I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I wanted to upgrade my boost from 1.58 to the latest version because one of the programs I was planning to use requires. One thread suggested that I need to uninstall the older version first before installing a the newer version. So I did using:



      sudo apt-get remove 'libboost-.*'


      Little did I know that hitting enter and yes was the stupidest thing to do. I'm not unfamiliar with removing programs so I did not read what is what on the terminal (which programs were to be removed) and my fingers were really faster than my eyes. So when I noticed that the programs in my dashboard (e.g. libreoffice) started to disappear I thought I had to stop the run, which I did. However, the damage has been done. Upon restarting my computer, it been stuck on the ubuntu splash page with the five dots still changing their colors. It's like that for almost 2 hours now. I'm stupid and I badly need help. Oh, my poor data.



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