apt command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix apt command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

apt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt: command not found

Solutions to apt: command not found

How To Fix apt: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu apt is provided by apt package.

apt is:

This package provides commandline tools for searching and managing as well as querying information about packages as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.

These include:

apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and removal of packages together with their dependencies
apt-cache for querying available information about installed as well as installable packages
apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install apt

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install apt.

sudo apt -y install apt

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install apt

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix apt command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.