apt-get: command not found

Question

I'm trying to install an apache server on my AWS instance, however, it seems that it doesn't have the apt package installed.

I googled and all I found was some broken links to this package. I am using Putty on a windows machine if that information helps.

I currently have low to none experience in linux enviroments.

I am running the following version of Linux

Linux ip-172-31-37-96 3.14.48-33.39.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 14 23:43:07 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Can anyone help with that?

Answer 1

If you're using Amazon Linux it's CentOS-based, which is RedHat-based. RH-based installs use yum not apt-get. Something like yum search httpd should show you the available Apache packages - you likely want yum install httpd24.

Note: Amazon Linux 2 has diverged from CentOS since the writing of this answer, but still uses yum.

Answer 2

Try to install your application by using yum command yum install application_name

Answer 3

I faced the same issue regarding apt-get: command not found here are the steps how I resolved it on ubuntu xenial

• Search the appropriate version of apt from here (apt_1.4_amd64.deb for ubuntu xenial)

• Download the apt.deb

  wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.4_amd64.deb

• Install the apt.deb package

  sudo dpkg -i apt_1.4_amd64.deb

Now we can easily run

sudo apt-get install htop

Answer 4

Check the Linux distribution, apt-get works in Debian based distro whereas yum works in Fedora based distro.

Ref: How to know distro name, execute command cat /etc/*-release

It is also possible your system administrator does not permit you (or did not put you in the group of users who have sudo permissions) to execute apt-get but if you have sudo access try to execute with sudo apt-get <package_name> if debian or yum install <package_name> if you are using Fedora.

Answer 5

This is one of the command which you can run to install apt-get:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt_1.4_amd64.deb

Answer 6

You need to manually download the apt deb package. Then run dpkg and it should install.