install apt-get on linux Red Hat server

linux apt-get
Philip Mais picture Philip Mais · Mar 18, 2011 · Viewed 138.6k times · Source

I'm setting up a Linux Red Hat web server. apt-get isn't installed, but yum is. However, yum cannot find the apt package.

When I run apt-get, I get a message from the shell saying that the command apt-get couldn't be found. When I try yum install apt or yum install apt-get I get a message saying yum couldn't find the package and there was nothing to do

I suspect that it's probably a case of editing a sources list (as with apt) to add the source that apt is available from, but I a) don't know where this source list would be, and b) don't know what source would provide apt...

If anyone could enlighten me, it would be greatly appreciated

Answer

Michael picture Michael · Mar 18, 2011

If you have a Red Hat server use yum. apt-get is only for Debian, Ubuntu and some other related linux.

Why would you want to use apt-get anyway? (It seems like you know what yum is.)

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