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Amazon Linux: apt-get: command not found


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.


Try to install your application by using yum commandyum install application_name


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.