Installing apt-get

Question

The apt-get command and the sudo command does not work for me. which apt-get returns nothing. I checked by bin folder to make sure, and there is no aptget. I however have wget. Can I install apt-get with wget? If not, how can I install it?

Answer 1

of course you can do that, although it is strange that you missed that package/command ... Anyway, a manual way to do it is to download the package and to install it with dpkg, as follows:

1. grab the package from the web

    wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.0.1ubuntu2.17_amd64.deb -O apt.deb
   

Edit: Check for the latest source at http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/?C=M;O=D

2. install it with dpkg

    sudo dpkg -i apt.deb
   

2 (other). Alternative use of dkpg without sudo - I didn't know about these, included after comments-

pkexec dpkg -i apt.deb

if everything goes right, that should be enough.

Probably you may find that some dependencies are not satisfied, to deal with that you may need to create a folder (something like "apt-installer") and drop all the dependencies of the apt package there. The list of dependencies required will be shown by the dpkg output and the download process is similar to the one explained above. Last, if you don't feel confident of what you are doing, my suggestion is that you may want to do a fresh install of your system.

Cheers.

Answer 2

Now...

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_2.1.10ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb -O apt.deb

In the future this will likely 404 error as well, so remove the file name apt_2.1.10ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb -O apt.deb

and enter just the http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/ part into a browser. Look for the most current version of the file, and change the path to it.