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raidz
Asked: 2021-02-08 19:47:29 +0800 CST

Why is apt-get unable to locate bitcoin and bitcoin-qt package?

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when i run these:

sudo apt-get install bitcoin

OR

sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

i get "E: Unable to locate package" what do i do?

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2 Answers

  1. Bitcoin is not available in the official repositories, and the Bitcoin PPA is not maintained anymore. Instead, install the official snap version with the command

    sudo snap install bitcoin-core
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  2. An apt-cache search bitcoin for example found a number of packages that used the word 'bitcoin' in their name/description etc.. but they didn't find what I suspect you're looking for.

    guiverc@d960-ubu2:~/.local$   apt-cache search bitcoin
base58 - base58 encode/decode: command-line interface
bruteforce-wallet - try to find the password of an encrypted wallet file
cgminer - multi-threaded multi-pool Bitcoin miner
golang-github-btcsuite-btcd-btcec-dev - Go library for Elliptic curve cryptography
libbase58-0 - library for Bitcoin's base58 encoding
libbase58-dev - library for Bitcoin's base58 encoding -- development files
libblkmaker-0.1-6 - implementation of getblocktemplate protocol
libblkmaker-0.1-dev - C implementation of getblocktemplate protocol - development files
libencode-base58-perl - module to shorten numbers using a base58 conversion
libsecp256k1-0 - library for EC operations on curve secp256k1
libsecp256k1-dev - library for EC operations on curve secp256k1 - development headers
python3-base58 - base58 encode/decode for Python
python3-bip32utils - Python implementation of Bitcoin hierarchical deterministic wallet
python3-bitcoinlib - Python module with an easy interface to the Bitcoin protocol
python3-btchip - Python library to communicate with BTChip dongle (Python 3)
python3-mnemonic - Implementation of Bitcoin BIP-0039 (Python 3)
python3-stdnum - Python module to handle standardized numbers and codes (Python3 version)
python3-trezor - library for communicating with TREZOR Bitcoin HW wallet (Python 3)
trezor - utilities for communicating with TREZOR Bitcoin HW wallet

    I then searched using rmadison and it detects it as available for an ESM release.

    guiverc@d960-ubu2:~/.local$   rmadison bitcoin
 bitcoin | 0.3.24~dfsg-1          | precise/universe         | source
 bitcoin | 0.3.24~dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 | precise-updates/universe | source

    which could be why you get your package message; ie. it's available for another release but not yours (or mine).

    Online tool https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bitcoin&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all shows supported releases, but not the ESM release my terminal search found.

    As for solution, refer @Archisman Panigrahi's answer maybe. This maybe explains why you get the response you did.

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