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Asked: 2020-07-06 01:05:09 +0800 CST

Error - Package 'pulseaudio' has no installation candidate [duplicate]

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I have just recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 on Dell Vostro 15 laptop. I had some problems related to pulseaudio, so I ran these commands as it is shown here

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

After executing these commands I ran sudo apt-get install pulseaudio and even tried running sudo apt install pulseaudio but these errors occured :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package pulseaudio is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'pulseaudio' has no installation candidate

Any ideas how do I fix this?

software-installation pulseaudio apt

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    for a long shot

    software-properties-gtk

    Go to Tab updates and activate bionic-updates and bionic-security.

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install pulseaudio
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