I deleted my network manager
I was running few terminal commands and ran "purge network-manager" command. And as expected I deleted my network manager and I am unable to access the internet. I searched the internet for a solution and found that the "network manager" file can be downloaded from ubuntu website to another device and copy the file to ubuntu computer. Then we can run the "dpkg -i" command to install the network manager back. I tired to find the network manager file on the website but could not find it as I found many variants(versions) of it. Can somebody point me to the network manager file required for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ? And it would be of great help if you can confirm that the procedure that I am trying is safe and sound.
Thanking you in Advance.
Edit: I am a new to ubuntu. Any kind of help is appreciated.
61 Answer
first please open a terminal (ctrl+alt+t), type uname -i and then press enter to see what architecture you are using.
after that use an other machine, go to and download the according .deb-file at the bottom of the page.
with the file back at the first machine just double-click at the file, and in the window press install.
it may be possible that the network-manager.deb refuses install because of missing dependencies, than i guess you have to do the same for network-manager-gnome or what ever dependencies it needs.
but before messing around with too much dependencies it would be better to connect to your network via terminal and ifconfig and then reinstall the network-manager with sudo apt install network-manager. but keep in mind, you may have to revert the ifconfig-changes and activate the network-manager.
