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Gozalito
Asked: 2018-11-04 08:18:28 +0800 CST

E: Package 'libvirt-bin' has no installation candidate

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I'm trying to install KVM\qemu on Ubuntu 18.10.

According to this page I'm running the command:

apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin ubuntu-vm-builder bridge-utils

and get an error about the packge "libvirt-bin" and "ubuntu-vm-builder":

E: Package 'libvirt-bin' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-vm-builder

I see that the package "libvirt-bin" is available.

The main repository is set. Anything that I'm doing wrong? Couldn't find any info regrading this issue.

Is it the new Ubuntu version (18.10)?

Thanks

kvm 18.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are correct: The libvirt-bin package was dropped in 18.10.

    Quoting from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00518.html

    The package was split into two parts:

    libvirt-daemon-system

    libvirt-clients

    In most cases you probably want both of them at the same time.

    So instead of libvirt-bin use libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients:

    sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils
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