Can someone help me get apt-get installed?I followed these instructions to try and install APT on Centos 6 64 bit:wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpmrpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txtrpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpmrpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpmyum install aptOn step 5 I get this output and error: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, securityLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: mirror.team-cymru.org27 packages excluded due to repository priority protectionsSetting up Install ProcessNo package apt available.Error: Nothing to doI'm a Linux newb, but I think I looked at the listing of packages here: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/apt/ and there is no Centos 6 64 bit package. Looking at their build logs it seems there is an error building for Centos 6.
Trouble Installing APT on Centos 6 64 bit
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There can often be confusion when you're first starting out with either a Debian based distro such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint vs. the Red Hat based distros of Fedora, CentOS or RHEL.There are 4 pieces of software that are responsible for doing the management of package installation and removal. They are as follows:For Debian based distros:dpkgAPTFor Red Hat based distros:RPMYUMThey all do very similar things for their respective platforms. For starters, rpm and dpkg do almost identical things. They're the low level tools that actually do the heavy lifting of installing software and tracking where it was installed. For the sake of simplicity I won't discuss them further.APT vs. YUMThese 2 tools do exactly the same things as well. They work at a higher level than dpkg or rpm by facilitating the identifying of dependencies when you tell them to install package X. They also know how to go about getting the RPMs that a given package is comprised of, knowing what mirrors on the internet to go source these items from.Can't I use APT as a YUM replacement?You can. But APT isn't some magical translation layer that lets you find directions for installing software as described on some blog post, it's still beholden to installing the RPM packages by the names that they would show up with, in the YUM world.So I would strongly encourage you to abandon this approach and simply stick with using YUM on Red Hat based distros.