'yum' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I installed CentOS 7 minimal on VirtualBox; when I type:

yum install net-tools

I get this error:

'yum' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Solution

'yum' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

This is a Windows error message, you need to run your commands inside a shell in your CentOS VM, not at a Windows command prompt.

Comments

[thrig]

Hmm, that's probably a bit too minimal. What does something like rpm -qa | egrep 'yum|dnf' show?

[Julie Pelletier]

Check if /usr/bin/yum exists. If not, you have a broken installation or you're not really on CentOS 7.

[Julie Pelletier]

Even minimal installation includes yum.

[Bilal]

That's weird, i reboot the VM, and it's worked after that !