Unable to locate package http, ubuntu 12.04

Question

I can install http just by call 'apt-get install http' But I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package http

I also tried 'sudo apt-get install http'. no luck.

My system is ubuntu 12.04.

Refer this sample answer this may help you lot http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17259978/ubuntu-unable-to-locate-package — Velmurugan S, Feb 08 '14 at 07:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '16 at 01:15

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Try this command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

The httpd package comes under the name of apache2 in Ubuntu.

answered Feb 13 '16 at 01:15

Sasu

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '14 at 07:28

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The package name is httpd. so,

sudo apt-get install httpd

should work.

answered Feb 08 '14 at 07:28

Josh-LastName

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E: Package 'httpd' has no installation candidate – Farid Dilaver Feb 08 '14 at 08:16

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