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Can you use apt-get on CentOS?
Answer. RightScale does not officially support APT on the CentOS 5 based images. You may have noticed that yum install apt results in nothing to do. However, you can install it using YUM (centos uses YUM instead of APT).
Does CentOS use yum or apt?
APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool, provides commands used for most common operations: Searching repositories, installing collections of packages and their dependencies, and managing upgrades. In CentOS, yum is used to interact with both individual package files and repositories.
Is it possible to install apt-get on CentOS?
If you use yum/dnf/rpm or apt-get/dpkg, you still have to have the software packaged and available to you to be able to install it. If the software packages are missing from the yum repos then apt-get won’t be able to install it either – unless you aim to install Debian packages on CentOS (don’t!).
What is the purpose of apt-get in Debian?
In its native form, apt-get is part of the Debian apt (Advanced Packaging Tool) package management system. Among other things, it is used to update, install and remove deb packages.
Why is Git not installed in CentOS 5?
Nothing to do This tells you that the package repositories that yum knows about don’t contain the required rpms (RPM Package Manager files) to install git. This is presumably because CentOS 5 is based on RHEL 5, which was released in 2007, before git was considered a mature version control system.
What’s the difference between Ubuntu and CentOS aptitude?
Ubuntu and CentOS are both based on Linux kernel. The primary difference is with the packaging system being aptitude for Ubuntu and yum for CentOS. Many folks who already use Ubuntu are not excited to even try CentOS just because it seems entirely different. But that’s not the case. Especially if you can get apt-get working in CentOS.