Amazon Linux apt-get command not found

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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

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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

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apt   get  command not found   For Debian based Linux distributions   Try to use sudo apt install  lt package gt  instead of the usual sudo apt-get install  lt package gt   From man apt     apt provides a high-level commandline interface for the package management system  It is intended as an end user interface and enables some options better suited for interactive usage by default compared to more specialized APT tools like apt-get 8  and apt-cache 8

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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

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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

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Use yum with sudo for Amazon Linux 2 AMI  HVM   SSD Volume Type Example  Try to install wsgi with apache at aws instance sudo yum install python3-pip apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

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

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This answer is for complete AWS beginners   I had this issue but it was because I was trying to run a command from a tutorial inside my Mac computer  What I actually needed to do was SSH into my AWS machine  and then run the same command there  Ta Da  it worked     Click this button in your EC2 instance  to be able to copy the SSH command  setup your SSH keys https   docs aws amazon com AWSEC2 latest UserGuide ec2-key-pairs html and then you can SSH into your machine  Once here  you can run your sudo apt-get command   Hope this helps other beginners

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

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For openSUSE Linux distribution    sudo zypper install  lt package gt    For example   sudo zypper install git

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There can be 2 issues    1  Your are trying the command in machine that does not support apt-get command because apt-get is suitable for Linux based Ubuntu machines  for MAC  try apt-get equivalent such as Brew  2  The other issue can be that your installation was not completed properly So  The short answer  Re-install Ubuntu from a Live CD or USB   The long version  The long version would be a waste of your time  your system will never be clean  but if you insist you could try      gt  Copying everything  missing  except for the  home folder from the Live CD USB to your HDD   OR     gt  Do a re-install repair over the broken system again with the Live CD   USB stick   OR     gt  Download the deb file for apt-get and install as explained on above posts  I would definitely go for a fresh new install as there are so many things to do and so little time

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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  lt package name gt  if debian or yum install  lt package name gt  if you are using Fedora

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