kubuntu apt-get not installed.
Currently running Feisty Fawn 7.04
On booting up, my boot-up flash screen comes up.
About halfway thru boot-up the flash screen chages to text (terminal or Bash Screen ?), where I can see the various aspects of the boot-up loading.
It gets to a point "the program 'apt-get' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install apt
When I type 'apt-get install apt', I get
Bash: apt-get command not found, - and then the next line puts me at my root home directory with a flashing curser ready for my input.
I've also tried
sudo apt-get install apt
and the results are the same.
What I am trying to get to is my normal GUI or desktop.
Your help please - elc
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:39:59PM +0100, elc wrote:
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
Hi all,
Probably not much help for elc now, but I had a machine do this to me today. I'd applied some updates or other (and I must admit that i'd been fiddling with dpkg prior to it breaking) and the machine failed to boot in the manner elc described above. Anyhow, the problem was that the files /lib/libuuid.so.1 /lib/libuuid.so.1.2 had for some reason gone missing, because of this / can't be mounted and the machine won't boot.
I fixed it by grabbing a usb flash drive and copying those files on to the flash drive from another machine and cp'ing them into place in /lib then rebooted and the machine came back straight away.
Hopefully this will help people out who are searching the web in the future if they have a similar problem too.
Adam
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