[SOLVED] Amazon Linux: "apt-get: command not found"

Amazon Linux: "apt-get: command not found"

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 environments.

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

How can I fix this problem?

Solution

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.