installing ns2 in ubuntu

Question

when I give this command

apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev

it gives the following error

E: Package 'build-essential' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'autoconf' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'automake' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package libxmu-dev

Include in your question the output of these four commands: 1) lsb_release -sr, 2) sudo apt-get update, 3) apt-cache policy build-essential, 4) grep -r ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list*. Please [edit] your question to do so and please use proper formatting. — gertvdijk, Sep 15 '14 at 13:22

Sylvain Pineau · Answer 1 · 2014-09-15T13:55:42.010

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Try to first enable the main repository:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"
sudo apt-get update

And finally:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev

edited Sep 15 '14 at 13:55

answered Sep 15 '14 at 13:40

Sylvain Pineau

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-1. Just to install build-essential and GNU autotools you really don't need to enable all these repositories. – gertvdijk Sep 15 '14 at 13:46
thank you sir a bundle of thanx for your kind information – shabeer Sep 15 '14 at 13:56
@gertvdijk: Thanks, I've updated my answer as all those packages seem to be in main – Sylvain Pineau Sep 15 '14 at 13:56
it works fine now – shabeer Sep 15 '14 at 13:56
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Shouldn't the main repository be enabled by default? – David Foerster Apr 11 '18 at 10:23

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