apt-get Unable to locate package

[rieuk]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to install package "libhdf5-mpich-dev". I've installed this once before, then I did "apt-get remove" to it. Now I want to reinstall it, but it can't even locate the package. I didn't change anything in my sources.list. What in the world??

[deadflowr]

What Ubuntu release are you running?

Lucid and Precise use that version, but the other releases run a different version.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?su...searchon=names

[rieuk]

I'm running 12.04.

[deadflowr]

The package should be in your repos, because they're in mine.
They're in the universe repositories.
You can try running

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update

To try to clear and refresh the package list you have.

If that doesn't help, you can also download the package from the link I provided earlier.

[rieuk]

I ended up using the software manager to download and install the synaptic package manager. Then I used this to get the package. Honestly I can't be bothered solving this problem anymore my patience has been worn thin with Ubuntu

[ibjsb4]

Your still using apt-get, synaptic is just a gui for it.