ssh service not running on Ubuntu

I run

sudo apt install openssh-server

and get

openssh-server is already the newest version.

Then I run

sudo systemctl status sshd

and it responds with

sshd.service
 Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
 Active: inactive (dead)

and yet it appears to be available

ssh -V
   OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-2ubuntu2.13, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014

You should first just try to remove then reinstall it.

sudo apt remove openssh-server
sudo apt install openssh-server

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