Tried what you suggested Adam, and got 'command not found' for aptitude install apt. Also had 'command not found' for sudo aptitude install apt. In fact I also tried commands ls, man, sudo, and they all returned 'command not found'.
Does this mean that all (most) of my commands are unavailable?
About a week ago I went through the update procedure. I started with Dapper 6.06 (from live CD), updated to Edgy 6.10, then updated to Feisty 7.04. Things worked perfectly until last weekend when I tried to boot up linux and got this result. Would I presume that the live CD 6.06 would not now be of any use since I am 2 upgrades up?
I've alo tried recover mode at Grub but doesn't work either - same results.
Is there such a thing as a rescue disk that will repair my OS without losing my work?
Fortunately I am dual booting with Win98 (wash my mouth out), but it is a right pain rebooting backwards and forwards.
I look forward to any suggestions - elc
It gets to a point "the program 'apt-get' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install apt
Try
aptitude install apt (or possibly sudo aptitude install apt)
What I am trying to get to is my normal GUI or desktop.
It sounds like your machine might have serious problems, has anything changed recently or any other things that might be relevant to this problem?
Adam