apt-get install htop problem

[mikemoy]

apt-get update works fine. I was able to install nano, but when I tried apt-get install htop i got the following error. I received the same error with a couple other common packages as well like tightvncserver.

root@FriendlyARM:~# apt-get install htop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package htop
root@FriendlyARM:~#

[Waz]

If you can't get the packet via apt-get; you can always do install from source : http://hisham.hm/htop/

[mikemoy]

Thank you, but I should not have to do that. Something is not right.

[mikemoy]

Friendly ARM what is the problem here? I cannot install many packages. Currently its useless in this state.

[davef]

Maybe, go to /etc/apt/ and modify the sources.list to a Debian mirror in your country.

If you can apt-get install dctrl-tools

try:

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dpkg --configure -a
sync-available

Also,

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apt-get clean all
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get install -f  (maybe look this one up before running as I forget what this one does)

[TheBluProject]

Mike,

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ wily universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ wily universe

TBP

[mikemoy]

Mike,

Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ wily universe multiverse
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ wily universe

TBP

Thank everyone for the help, this post here worked like a charm. Thank you

[M4xw3llo_90]

Hi,

Got the same problem with some packages.
But it worked by installing an older version:

wget http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/1.0.3/htop-1.0.3.tar.gz
./configure; make; make install (made some problems because of an missing package)

used apt-get install libncursesw to install extra packages:

The following extra packages will be installed:
libtinfo-dev libtinfo5-dbg
Suggested packages:
ncurses-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libncursesw5-dbg libncursesw5-dev libtinfo-dev libtinfo5-dbg

after that it worked smoth

Br Max