apt-get command does not exists

Question

Somehow apt-get disappeared, and it appears I have dpkg, or at least it doesn't fail with command not found. I've tried software center, but I don't know which app to load. How can I load apt from scratch? I have the original Ubuntu 18.04 CD.

I've tried to get gdebi, but installation says to use apt-get, which is a catch 22 — jim Cruse, Nov 02 '18 at 16:24
No apt does not work 'error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.4.12 — jim Cruse, Nov 02 '18 at 21:13

Vijay · Answer 1 · 2018-11-02T18:48:20.053

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Seems that you don't have Synaptic Package Manager either.

Download aptitude from here and install with dpkg or gdebi

then

sudo aptitude purge apt

sudo aptitude install apt

also install synaptic for future use.

sudo apt install synaptic

edited Nov 02 '18 at 18:48

answered Nov 02 '18 at 16:38

Vijay

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Can't find apport-gtk – jim Cruse Nov 02 '18 at 21:25
Now I get dpkg: error processing package apport-gtk – jim Cruse Nov 02 '18 at 22:03

apt-get command does not exists

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