Installs a bunch of stuff relating to the libreoffice suite and at the tail end of the installation of the above-named package, apt removes a plethora of absolutely essential packages need to use Ubuntu, including, but not limited to the entire desktop, gdm, and the ability to access the internet to download any packages with apt. The entire virtual machine was broken after installing samba-dev:i386 and needed to be restored from a backup.
sudo apt install samba-dev:i386
Installs a bunch of stuff relating to the libreoffice suite and at the tail end of the installation of the above-named package, apt removes a plethora of absolutely essential packages need to use Ubuntu, including, but not limited to the entire desktop, gdm, and the ability to access the internet to download any packages with apt. The entire virtual machine was broken after installing samba-dev:i386 and needed to be restored from a backup.