Hi,

Using command line, I removed VLC installation. When it completed, I realized several Menu items in the App Launcher, disappeared and all of its icons. I reseted the PC, and when loading the Neon OS partition, I got a keyboard image on my screen; somehow I could get rid of it and an odd login screen showed up; it asked for my user password, typed in and even the enter key did not work. Could not do anything. Now I'm working from my Mint partition. Seems KDE Neon just crashed after removal of VLC via command line. Anything that can be done, without having to re-install KDE Neon?

Probably reinstalling the package neon-desktop should pull everything back in. VLC seems to be a hard dependency, and removing it also removed a lot of key components, as you saw when uninstalling it and hit "yes" to proceed after the list of changes were presented.

Thank you

How an I install neon-desktop? I cannot even login into the account, as described. Is there any way I can go into COmmand Line at the point I get, so I can execute a sudo?

Boot up to the login screen,
Hit ctrl-alt-f1
log in, then enter these commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neon-desktop
ctrl-alt-delete to reboot

Not sure if you would have lost your internet connection, but you will see errors if you can't connect.

Thank you; I accessed the command line as instructed. Unfortunatley there is no connection to Internet detected at the point the OS is loaded... So seems this is doomed. Means maybe that I'll have to re-install the partition. If so, kind of sad. in 8 years I have used Linux distros, this is the first one it crashes like this.

To uninstall vlc safely on KDE Neon(based on Kubuntu 18.04),

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$ sudo apt install phonon-backend-gstreamer
$ sudo apt install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
$ sudo apt remove vlc

This should work.