I am a certified Linux user with almost 10 years of experience.
Please run the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Let me know if this fixes your issue
- certified Linux expert
(I’m making fun of the 25 year Microsoft veterans on the support page that tell users to run SFC /scannow)
You joke but one time after a fresh install I genuinely forgot to update (the linux header files or something) and some of the device drivers weren’t working
I remember when SFC was first introduced, I excitedly wrote a script to invoke it remotely so I could use it on a user’s pc when they called to fix their problem. To this day I have never run that script. This was in 1998.
Its useful for fixing a Windows install after fixing a bad ram. Sometimes the utility gets corrupted so you need to fix it first.
I think it would be a great idea if some of the immutable Linux distros had a integrity checker like sfc
I think on mutable distros, or at least arch, you can run a command to reinstall all installed packages, which will verify integrity of the package files (signatures) and then ensure the files in the filesystem match package files? And I think it takes minutes at most, at least for typical setups.
I do think it’s also possible to just verify integrity of all files installed from a package, but I don’t remember if it required an external utility, pretty sure it’s on the arch wiki under pacman/tips and tricks
SFC has worked numerous times for me, usually for botched updates. Haven’t used it in a long time after leaving tech support
I enjoy red hat’s paid support articles that end by saying this is untested and may not work but it was added to the knowledge base 10 years ago
sudo: apt: command not found
I am a certified Linux user with over 20 years of experience.
Please run the following command in a terminal:
sudo dnf install apt
And then try the instructions above. Let me know if this fixes your issue
- certified Linux expert
Ah you seem to be missing dnf. No worries! Just do
pacman -S dnf
Then you can run
dnf install apt
