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Reinstall sudo apt-get?
I am using ubuntu11.10 and i was trying to do the update to 12.04, i found a post suggesting to use to solve part of the problem:
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-keyring sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install ubuntu-keyringI ran the first command but not able to run the second or any sudo or apt-get command.

How can i reinstall them?

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cron-apt

CRON-APT(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       CRON-APT(8)

NAME

       cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get

SYNOPSIS

       cron-apt [configfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.

       cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

		 --help
		 Show summary of options.

CONFIGURATION

       Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set	in
       /etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config

       From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get (1)

       aptitude (1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  This manual is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
       Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

																       CRON-APT(8)