Sometimes when we are playing around or we are more concern with the security about the system and wants to remove/uninstall packages from our server, sometimes some package accidentally gets removed. Among those, some are very critical for the system to manage.
Once I was analysing security on my ubuntu server, I accidentally remove the package manager and rebooted my server. Now when I try to install any package eg htop, I got issue regarding apt-get: command not found
OMG, what’s happening, now neither I can update/install/remove any of the packages, the options suggested on the internet was to re-install or a very complex way to repair, huuu, I can’t do that. After hard research and try, I came up with a solution.
Here are the steps how I resolved it on Ubuntu Xenial
Search the appropriate version of apt from here apt_1.4_amd64.deb for ubuntu xenial
1. Download the apt.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.4_amd64.deb
2. Install the apt.deb package
sudo dpkg -i apt_1.4_amd64.deb
3. Now we can easily run
sudo apt-get install
Thank GOD, now I can manage the packages which I want as per need.
I hope this post will help you and save your time, money and infrastructure.
Happy Learning
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