OS: Ubuntu 18.04
I was looking at the Ubuntu documentation on how to install auto-apt. However, when I run
apt-cache show auto-apt
I get
N: Unable to locate package auto-apt
E: No packages found
What happened to auto-apt ?
Edit. This is not a duplicate of the post apt search: limit to exact match . Below I am publishing some other results I got in the terminal.
$ apt search ^auto-apt$
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
$ sudo apt-get install auto-apt
[sudo] password for username:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package auto-apt
1 Answer
It seems auto-apt was last updated to version 0.3.24 in 2014, i.e., 5 years ago. Also, as of now xenial (16.04) seems to be the only supported release which still contains auto-apt in its repository information. In bionic (18.04) you can still download the deb package and install auto-apt. It's dependency is satisfiable. To install run
wget
sudo dpkg -i auto-apt_0.3.24_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -f
On a side note, since Ubuntu is a Debian based OS and all packages are imported from Debian itself, it seems Debian is also planning to drop auto-apt since it ain't available on Stretch or Buster.
