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When trying to deal with an error I accidentally deleted the /usr/bin/dpkg file and now I can't install packages anymore.

I'm still pretty new to linux so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Please help.

I use 20.04.2 LTS

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You have to manually download its package and get executable from it by

cd ~/Download
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.19.7ubuntu3_amd64.deb
ar x dpkg_1.19.7ubuntu3_amd64.deb
tar -xf data.tar.xz
sudo cp usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/dpkg

And then reinstall it for sure by sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg .

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  • It might be worth noting that the downloaded dpkg version should match with your current Ubuntu release ... So probably try using apt download dpkg instead to automatically download the correct version given you have the correct repositories list.
    – Raffa
    Jun 29, 2023 at 15:11

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