Can't Install build-essential on CentOS

Question

When I run the command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

I get the following error message:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package build-essential

Are you running a Red Hat kernel on a Debian or Ubuntu distribution? Or are you actually running a Red Hat distribution? If you're running a Red Hat distribution, then you should be using yum or up2date (whichever is appropriate for your distribution version).
Thanks for all your help guys! Googling how to install build-essential for CentOS pointed me in the right direction.
Here's the cmd: sudo yum install -y libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel
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Scott Likens · Answer 1 · 2012-02-22 23:45:40Z

up vote 2 down vote

I believe this still should work.

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

answered Feb 22 '12 at 23:45

Scott Likens
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Kevin · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22 23:30:39Z

up vote 1 down vote accepted

sudo yum install -y libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel

edited Feb 22 '12 at 23:30

Kevin
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answered Jul 12 '11 at 6:36

Waley Chen
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K.K Patel · Answer 3 · 2013-01-30 11:08:15Z

up vote 0 down vote

 yum install gcc gcc-c++ make openssl-devel

This works equivalent of build essential in Centos.

answered Jan 30 at 11:08

K.K Patel
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migrated from stackoverflow.com Jul 10 '11 at 22:21