Newbie questions - How to install apt-get?

[Herminio]

I'm a Linux newbie, and i've heard about something called apt-get, the problem is that i don't even know what it is, or what it does, can someone help me?

Thanks in advance

Herminio, Portugal

 

[chipperMDW]

apt-get is usually part of Debian-based systems. It's basically a pacakge management tool that finds and downloads software packages for you.

If you don't have a Debian-based system, you probably don't have apt-get. It's also probably hard to install it on non-Debian systems. It's also probably not going to help you much without the other Debian package management tools.

If you really need to do this, go to

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org,

look at the hints, and find the one about installing apt-get.

Alternately, there are some ports of apt-get that can be used to get .rpm pacakges. One of those would probably be easier to install on a RPM-based system, but it's not the "real" apt-get.

 

[Chacalinc]

you can get apt-get for fedora or other distros...

apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

search in google for: apt4rpm

Cheers.