apt-get errors for autofs

[mvirtual]

Tried to update autofs feature. As per this link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs

I tried

$ sudo apt-get install autofs

I get error:
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$ sudo apt-get install autofs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package autofs
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I am new to linux, please let me know how what is going wrong.

I get similar errors when trying to update some other packages as well. Is there a location where the packages are ?

[arpanaut]

Looks like that since lucid the name of the program has changed.

Try:

sudo apt-get install autofs5

[mvirtual]

Thanks ! That helped. Eventually found that autofs was already included in the initial install :)