what is this--- "could not find a package "

amritpalpathak · 02-26-2010, 07:59 AM

when i tried to install a software with terminal command like "sudo apt-get install name of the software " then it give the error package ,why this error comes
how to resolve it
plz give a simple solution

reed9 · 02-26-2010, 08:01 AM

It means either you have the package name wrong, the package doesn't exist in the repositories you have enabled, or you have not updated the package list with

Code:

sudo apt-get update

What is the package you are trying to install?

evo2 · 02-26-2010, 08:04 AM

You can search for the correct package name with apt-cache Eg

Code:

apt-cache search guess-of-package-name

Evo2.

Simon Bridge · 02-26-2010, 08:04 AM

The error comes up because, um, it could not find the package.
That will happen when the repository where the package lives is unknown to apt or if the package has been removed from a repo (or if its name is misspelled or it just plain never existed).

The solution is to make sure that the repo is known to apt.
In Ubuntu, you do this from system > administration > software sources - but you can also search for the packet with synaptic.