I lost the get-apt update ability

Eddie V

10/15/22, 2:40 AM

I'm not sure what I did here, but I am getting the error messages:

:~$ sudo apt-get update
sudo: apt-get: command not found

:~$ sudo adduser ihansen
sudo: adduser: command not found

:~$ sudo /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo: /etc/apt/sources.list: com`

sudo: dpkg: command not found

Whatever I did I also lost sudo access as well. I was able to restore sudo access but now I am faced with this issue. I am new to Linux and any help is appreciated. Since I'm a beginner can you please list out all the steps if there is a solution.

I am running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Focal.

Thank you for your help!

:~$ sudo /usr/bin/sudo -l

Matching Defaults entries for root on ubuntuserver:
    env_reset, mail_badpass,
    secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbi$

User root may run the following commands on ubuntuserver:
    (ALL : ALL) ALL
    (ALL : ALL) ALL

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:~$ cd /var/backups && ls
alternatives.tar.0        dpkg.diversions.1.gz    dpkg.statoverride.6.gz
alternatives.tar.1.gz     dpkg.diversions.2.gz    dpkg.status.0
alternatives.tar.2.gz     dpkg.diversions.3.gz    dpkg.status.1.gz
alternatives.tar.3.gz     dpkg.diversions.4.gz    dpkg.status.2.gz
apt.extended_states.0     dpkg.diversions.5.gz    dpkg.status.3.gz
apt.extended_states.1.gz  dpkg.diversions.6.gz    dpkg.status.4.gz
apt.extended_states.2.gz  dpkg.statoverride.0     dpkg.status.5.gz
apt.extended_states.3.gz  dpkg.statoverride.1.gz  dpkg.status.6.gz
apt.extended_states.4.gz  dpkg.statoverride.2.gz  group.bak
apt.extended_states.5.gz  dpkg.statoverride.3.gz  gshadow.bak
apt.extended_states.6.gz  dpkg.statoverride.4.gz  passwd.bak
dpkg.diversions.0         dpkg.statoverride.5.gz  shadow.bak

#################################################################

:~$ cd /var/lib/dpkg && ls
alternatives  diversions      lock           statoverride      status-old
available     diversions-old  lock-frontend  statoverride-old  triggers
cmethopt      info            parts          status            updates

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Eddie V

10/15/22, 4:58 AM

Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/126489/discussion-between-eddie-v-and-jon-skeet).

bac0n

10/15/22, 8:24 AM

`:/usr/sbi$` <-- fishy

Thomas Ward

10/15/22, 2:11 PM

@JonSkeet the 'user' functionality of move to chat doesn't delete the other comments. They got copied to chat. However, there's still more comments going on here beyond you and Eddie.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: I lost the get-apt update ability

TH: ฉันสูญเสียความสามารถในการอัปเดต get-apt

RO: Am pierdut capacitatea de actualizare get-apt

RU: Я потерял возможность обновления get-apt

VI: Tôi đã mất khả năng cập nhật get-apt

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