Linux command on Linode terminal is not working?
When i am writing a command below
apt-get update
It is showing me an error
-bash: apt-get: command not found
2 Replies
jtoscani
Linode Staff
We typically this type of error when calling on package managers that are incompatible with a distribution - plenty of users are running a multitude of servers and utilizing various distros, so it’s easy to mix up.
To provide some examples below, here are the commands you would run to update various distribution packages:
Debian & Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update
CentOS:
sudo yum update
Fedora:
sudo dnf upgrade
More examples are listed in our Getting Started guide, under the Install Software Updates section.
While @jtoscani's answer is helpful, it doesn't answers the OPs question. First, since apt-get(1) is the package manager on Debian/Ubuntu, one can assume the OPs distro is one of those two.
The message
-bash: apt-get: command not found
is what you get when bash(1) can't find a command. Typically, this means that the directory where apt-get(1) lives (/usr/bin on Debian/Ubuntu) is not in the user's PATH.
The OP either needs to add /usr/bin to his PATH in his login .profile:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
or specify the complete path name when invoking apt-get(1):
/usr/bin/apt-get …
-- sw