Borislav Hadzhiev
Thu Sep 30 2021·1 min read
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The AWS EC2 "apt-get: command not found" error occurs when we try to use the
apt-get
package manager on an EC2 instance that is launched with a non-Debian
Amazon Machine Image.
To solve the "apt-get: command not found" error replace apt-get
with yum
,
e.g. sudo yum install curl
. The yum
package manager is used in all
Amazon Linux
AMIs.
sudo yum install curl
Yum
is the primary package manager for Amazon Linux AMIs
and Red Hat Linux systems.If you still get the error after trying the yum
command, you have to verify
which AMI your EC2 instance is launched with:
Instance details
section and open the AMI ID
in a new
tabPublic images
from the drop down filter and look at the details of
your AMI