Removed apt-get from Ubuntu; how to recover?

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Well my fingers did manage to do sudo apt-get remove libstdc++6 and write, yes. That removed a lot of system files. Is there any way to bring it up working again? I have connected to terminal, and wget is working fine. I managed to ctrl+C when figured out what was happening.

I think the main thing would be to get apt-get, but how?

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric x64bit

Haha, shame man. I agree with @MrLister, maybe the Ubuntu CD has something to repair all broken / missing files on your system. — Kevdog777, Aug 20 '12 at 14:25

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '12 at 13:37

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You can still install any package via dpkg -i package.deb after downloading it with wget from packages.ubuntu.com. And even if dpkg is broken, you can unpack the .deb with ar and then copy the contents with cp manually.

answered Aug 20 '12 at 13:37

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I would also mention to run as much of the preinst and postinst as possible. – nanofarad Aug 20 '12 at 15:18
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@ObsessiveFOSS If you can get `apt-get` working, it has `--reinstall` - that would handle the rest, right? – Izkata Aug 20 '12 at 18:13

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 20 '12 at 13:37

I would start with downloading the package of apt-get ( if possible trough the ubuntu repository and running

dpkg -i <package-name>

If dpkg is not available next step would be building it from source. Same thing for all the unmet dependancies you might encounter.

Removed apt-get from Ubuntu; how to recover?

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