APT:If you don't have it, use it to install it.

[init1]

Today, I was dumped into maintenance mode, and it said

The program 'apt-get' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install apt

:lolflag:

[koenn]

and did that work ?

[KIAaze]

Reminds me of Windows...:lolflag:
That's a bug to be fixed I say!

[Jussi01]

lol... do you have aptitude still? could use that...

[srt4play]

I've seen that before. I lol at it.

[@trophy]

Today, I was dumped into maintenance mode, and it said

:lolflag:

Just another example of the smart-***, elitist attitude that *nix guys sometimes have... I imagine someone put this in there while saying "MWUHAHAHAHA!"

[init1]

lol... do you have aptitude still? could use that...
No, it's fine now. I was just in a limited shell. A partition on my HD is messed up, and fschk always freaks out about it and asks me if I want to go into maintenance mode. So I tried it. I'm in normal mode now.

[forrestcupp]

The funny thing is that that is really how you install apt. I've had to do that before and it works.

[m0eman]

lol, I used to get that quite often before I figured out to change a 1 to 0 in my fstab file (something about scanning a partition type that wasn't supposed to be scanned)

[aktiwers]

Hehe I just typed:

aktiwers@HAL:~$ sudo apt-get remove apt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apport apport-gtk apt apt-utils aptitude gdebi gdebi-core gnome-app-install
language-selector python-apport python-apt python-launchpad-bugs
python-software-properties restricted-manager software-properties-gtk
synaptic tasksel tasksel-data ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-minimal
unattended-upgrades update-manager update-manager-core update-notifier wajig
xubuntu-desktop
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
apt
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 26 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 33,6MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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Look what I need to type to confirm! LOL

[KIAaze]

Look what I need to type to confirm! LOL
...and that's where the stupid Windows user just copy/pastes the answer...

[ironfistchamp]

I just typed "Yes, do as I say!"

That was a ****ing stupid thing to do wasn't it?

Ironfistchamp

[forrestcupp]

I just typed "Yes, do as I say!"

That was a ****ing stupid thing to do wasn't it?

Ironfistchamp

Now try

sudo apt-get install apt
and see what happens

[ironfistchamp]

Couldn't find apt. All I did was use dpkg and install a downloaded deb of apt. Then I apt-get installed synaptic and went about reinstalling things and looking for other call software. Ended up installing 70 packages when I only removed a few lol.

[guitarmaniac]

I had that happen to me a day or two ago as well.
Don't know why, I think it was a bad install of ubuntu.

[Polygon]

i get the "could not find the command apt. Type sudo apt-get install apt to install it" when i get a fsck error on startup and it dumps me to a recovery console. I think its a bug thats not major but should be fixed eventually :D

[Spike-X]

Reminds me of Windows...

"Keyboard not detected. Press f8 to continue."

[Stone123]

Today, I was dumped into maintenance mode, and it said

:lolflag:

You lost PATH or you have corrupted system. Nothing new. If it happends after more recoveries you have a foulty processor or memory.

I got that from missing last line in apt. And after restart dpkg was broken too. Try dpkg even funnier errors

[init1]

You lost PATH or you have corrupted system. Nothing new. If it happends after more recoveries you have a foulty processor or memory.

I got that from missing last line in apt. And after restart dpkg was broken too. Try dpkg even funnier errors
No, it was just a limited shell trying to act like the real shell but failing. This came from a bad partition on my HD that fstab was handling.