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# apt-get install kvm kvm-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package kvm-source

While installing kvm in my ubuntu12.04 lts machine. I got this error.What i want to do.

Siva Gnanam
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It seems this package just doesn't exist:

 apt-cache search kvm-source
 #if it returns nothing it means the package doesn't exit

As long as we want to search only Ubuntu official repositories, we can also check on http://packages.ubuntu.com/. Here we see that the package kvm exists, but that kvm-source doesn't.

If you want to retrieve the source for this package, you should try

apt-get source kvm

(see man apt-get for more info on the source command)

Edit to answer comment:

You can check if a package is installed with e.g.:

dpkg --status kvm
gturri
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  • Yes I tried apt-get source kvm. and it works then i check the package with apt-cache search kvm-source. It does not return anything. how to check the package installed with that command. – Siva Gnanam Dec 28 '13 at 14:27