Amazon EC2 Ubuntu problems with apt-get?

Question

I am running ubuntu 10.10 64bit using the stock ami on a micro ec2, when i try to install apache i get

sudo: apt-get: command not found

is the apt package not installed on the EC2 AMIs?

if so how do i get apt back or work around it?

Answer 1

It could be a path issue try

sudo /usr/bin/apt-get ...

You can set the path that sudo will search with the secure_path directive in the sudoers file

secure_path

Path used for every command run from sudo. If you don’t trust the people running sudo to have a sane PATH environment variable you may want to use this. Another use is if you want to have the "root path" be separate from the "user path." Users in the group specified by the exempt_group option are not affected by secure_path. This is not set by default.

Answer 2

Do dpkg -l |grep apt and have a look if the package is really installed. If yes, try to use /usr/bin/apt-get instead of apt-get.

If apt-get is not installed and it is indeed an Ubuntu system, something is wrong with your installation. One week ago, I installed the same OS on a test EC2 instance, and apt-get worked from the very beginning.

Maybe you "reinstall" your instance by deleting and recreating it? Are you sure that it is really an Ubuntu?

Try

cat /etc/issue

and have a look - maybe you missclicked and used the wrong image.