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tosandip
March 12th, 2010, 02:22 PM
Guys,

I had installed 9.10 Ubuntu on my Dell 1564. I wanted to download & Install additional packages say like tcsh.

When I tried downloading the packages using apt-get.. I got an error massage saying package not found. Any Idea how to get rid of this issue.

I have also checked my etc/apt/sources.list File & it looks all right.

Is there any switch need to turn ON for enabling apt-get?

Regards
San

Enigmapond
March 12th, 2010, 02:26 PM
Make sure you have the proper name of the package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

slakkie
March 12th, 2010, 02:34 PM
You can use aptitude to search for packages

aptitude search <packagename>
aptitude search ~d<packagedescription>

eg.

aptitude search xserver-xorg-video* will search for packages with that name

aptitude search ~dwebcam will search for packages where the description mentions webcam.

Hope this helps.

tosandip
March 12th, 2010, 02:37 PM
Make sure you have the proper name of the package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/


Say to Install vim,

I tried
sudo apt-get install vim
vim-full
vim-gnome
tcsh
csh

etc, But every time it came out with saying no package found. So I started believing that something is missing to turn ON apt-get

kathy4scuba
April 23rd, 2010, 06:49 AM
It's been a couple of years since I had to install Ubuntu and I was running into similar issues. What I had forgotten to do was to update the package list on my computer:

sudo apt-get update

Once I did that, then the following worked:

sudo apt-get install tcsh

Hope this helps.

I'm now also able to get tcsh with the Synaptic Package Manager.