How to install again Update Manager after uninstalling it

Question

I tried asking many times on few Ubuntu forums how to deal with my non-responsive Update Manager, but all I was getting was the same stuff (run it from the terminal, run some lines, apt-get update blah blah). Nothing was helping. Eventually I went mad Windows style and tried to simply uninstall it and install it again. The problem is - how to install it again? Can't do it through Software Center, can't really build a package (because I'm too stupid to do that). And I seriously want to avoid reinstalling the whole system.

I am running a 12.04 version (Update Manager was unable to update to a newer one)

Solution 1

Terminal/Konsole:

sudo apt-get install update-manager synaptic

or

sudo apt-get install --reinstall update-manager synaptic

Solution 2

I had a problem with update manager so I uninstalled update-manager and installed again by using:

For uninstall

sudo apt-get purge update-manager

For install

sudo apt-get install update-manager synaptic

And just worked

Sorry for my spelling

Comments

[Admin]

How did you uninstall it?

[Admin]

Also, what happens when you open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and type in sudo apt-get -f install?

[Admin]

how (what commands did you use???) did you uninstall it through the terminal???

[Marc]

sudo means "superuser do", requiring administrative rights and password to change the system. apt-get is how Debian-based Linux downloads and installs software from online repositories. install means what it says, as does reinstall. update-manager and synaptic are packages apt-get is being told to fetch and install.