apt-get: Command not found!

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Heys, I’m new to Suse, and im trying to install and fix a program trough
the console, was going to go “sudo apt-get install build-essentials”
But then the terminal said Apt-get:command not found, and then ive
started to wonder, why does my Suse OS not have apt-get command
installed by default?
thats question number one, and number two is, how do i get it?

Thanks :slight_smile:
//SpiderPig.

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Hi
openSUSE doesn’t use apt-get (it is available I think??), it uses the
zypper command. In this case you could select the base development
patterns;


sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis

Use the se option to see the full list,


zypper se -t pattern

There are many more, see the man page :slight_smile:

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SpiderPig;1907781 Wrote:
> … im trying to install and fix a program trough the console, was going
> to go “sudo apt-get install build-essentials”
> But then the terminal said Apt-get:command not found, and then ive
> started to wonder, why does my Suse OS not have apt-get command
> installed by default?
openSUSE has zypper instead:
‘Zypper/Usage/11.0 - openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage)

Some openSUSE basic concepts:
‘Concepts - openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts)

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I tried that but on my Ubuntu machine it said:

> bash: zypper: command not found

Oh dear, what’s wrong? ;);):wink:

PS: It’s a joke, ok?

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ken_yap;1907871 Wrote:
> I tried that but on my Ubuntu machine it said:
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> Oh dear, what’s wrong? ;);):wink:
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> PS: It’s a joke, ok?
>
> PPS: Actually I do now and then make the mistake of typing yum at
> OpenSUSE or rug at RHEL or any of a number of wrong combinations.

YaY!
You made my day.lol!

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BTW, I do have something useful to post, come to think of it.
Distrowatch recently published a cheatsheet summarising the commands for
all the major (and some minor) package managers. You can find it at

‘DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.’
(http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081013#feature)

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Thanks for the help guys!!!rotfl!

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