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Before writing the original issue I am facing, I think it'd be best to provide some background.

Background I was trying to register a new source to get packages when running apt-get to finally install azure-iot-sdk-c-dev to use the code to communicate to IoT Hub.

I ran in to issue when tried running the following command.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From the error it seemed that my PI doesn't have dirmngr directory. So I started looking for solutions. One of the solution was to use the following commands

sudo apt remove gnupg

sudo apt install --reinstall gnupg2

sudo apt install dirmngr

Even though I was informed about the potential damage of the first command I assumed performing the second command would fix things up, but the second command is not running.

Issue It is giving me errors like sudo: apt: command not found to fix that I tried the following

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnupg2

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

But both errors out stating -bash: apt-get: command not found

EDIT 1 After trying sudo aptitude install apt, I get the following, enter image description here I tried the following afterward enter image description here

Then manually created preferences enter image description here

now stuck at update enter image description here

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  • What does find / -name apt-get shows ? Does it lists /usr/bin/apt-get. If yes, then try using sudo /usr/bin/apt-get with install , update or upgrade. – C0deDaedalus Aug 24 '18 at 13:48
  • Ok will try once I reach home – Vivek_Shukla Aug 24 '18 at 15:24
  • Hi, I didn't find /usr/bin/apt-get listed, what next try seeing whether I have gdebi or one of the programs mentioned by @AFH. – Vivek_Shukla Aug 27 '18 at 0:29
  • Not sure what exactly is going on in your system. You should try suggestions by @AFH depending on what you have installed. Best of Luck :) – C0deDaedalus Aug 27 '18 at 2:07
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Removing gnupg should not have affected whether apt and apt-get are installed, though removing some libraries may stop them working correctly.

Possible solutions depend on what you have installed:-

  • if you have gdebi, then you can install apt* from the .deb files down-loaded from LaunchPad;
  • if you have aptitude or synaptic, you can use one of these to restore apt*;
  • otherwise, mount the install disc for the system, then modify PATH to reference the utilities on the install disc;
  • if all else fails, boot the install disc and reinstall the OS over the top.

If you use an install disc, make sure you down-load the latest for the release you are running.

There may be other solutions (such as using chroot to address your installed system from a booted install disc), but without understanding how apt* were lost, I am reluctant to suggest more.

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  • Thanks for the response, so something did get deleted? and My options are to repair or reinstall? – Vivek_Shukla Aug 24 '18 at 15:42
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    Did you follow @C0deDaedalus' suggestion (you will find locate a lot faster than find)? With what result? Obviously some sort of repair is needed: you will need to find which method involves the least work. Since I don't know what has gone wrong with your system, I don't know how much work each of my options will entail, though I expect the last will not be the easiest. – AFH Aug 24 '18 at 16:03
  • I will follow his suggestion once I reach back home in evening, then will post my updates. Thanks for the help though. – Vivek_Shukla Aug 24 '18 at 16:26
  • When I run the command as suggested by @C0deDaedalus, I see a lot of find commands with permission denied message and I do not see /usr/bin/apt-get either. I do not know whether I have gdebi, synaptic or aptitude but I will make sure to learn to find to see whether these programs are installed or not. In case I do not find the programs installed can I from the internet try installing those first? Please pardon me if I've missed something obvious, I'm completely new to this and Linux. – Vivek_Shukla Aug 27 '18 at 0:41
  • I seem to have aptitude, I used dpkg -l | grep -E '^ii' | grep aptitude. Now I need to learn to use aptitude to restore apt*. Will keep you posted sir. – Vivek_Shukla Aug 27 '18 at 1:04

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