Unable to find packagename 'xenial-proposed'

Question

setup: Ubuntu 16.04lts on vmware exsi vm as guest os.
procedure: installing openstack following url http://conjure-up.io/
installation issue: unbound local error; following instructions at Testing/EnableProposed (ubuntu wiki).
using the following command to upgrade xenial-proposed as item 3: sudo apt-get install packagename/xenial-proposed
getting error as shown in screen shot attached:

Please help suggest.

There is no package with the name packagename/xenial-proposed . The error is valid. — Severus Tux, Jun 03 '16 at 19:10
Hi, Would you please suggest how to follow instructions under selective upgrade at this url: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed — Dhiman, Jun 03 '16 at 20:07
Well you're supposed to replace "packagename" with the name of the package you want.. — doug, Jun 03 '16 at 20:12
Why do you even want to enable the proposed repository? It is not something one should generally be doing. — dobey, Jun 03 '16 at 20:21
Dobey, conjure-up at http://conjure-up.io/ process helps loading openstack on ubuntu16.04lts but it fails with an error I mentioned in my earlier post. This particular error can be fixed following through this url: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed Xenial-proposed package is mentioned in this url as a fix. — Dhiman, Jun 03 '16 at 20:34
Possible duplicate of How do I add the "proposed" repository? — Eric Carvalho, Jun 07 '16 at 10:53

Videonauth · Answer 1 · 2016-06-03T20:25:57.970

There is no package named 'xenial/proposed', however there is a repository called that name.

Note: enabling the repository xenial/proposed is not really encuraged because it contains bleeding edge developtment packages which may even be able to break your setup

To easily enable all the repositories you can change your /etc/apt/sources.list by:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And the following section is a compressed enable all repositories sources.list you can copy&paste or change your sources.list to look alike:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 16.04 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160420.1)]/ xenial main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

After done this edit, simply do an sudo apt-get update to cache the new enabled repositories, from there you can install whatever you need.

Nice work :) I guess the OP is trying to add that repository. Xenial-proposed — Severus Tux, Jun 03 '16 at 19:32
Hi Serverus, Any suggestion on how to retrieve this specific package xenial-proposed. — Dhiman, Jun 03 '16 at 20:14
@Dhiman I'm sorry i missed the essential line in my sources.list example which is deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse, I have corrected my answer right now. — Videonauth, Jun 03 '16 at 20:20
Serverus, Videonauth & Dobey, I am still getting the same error for which I followed instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed and those you have suggested herein. I get this error while doing: conjure-up openstack — Dhiman, Jun 03 '16 at 20:40
missed the error, here it is: UnboundLocalError: Local variable 'creds' referenced before assignment. — Dhiman, Jun 03 '16 at 20:41

Unable to find packagename 'xenial-proposed'

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