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I am running virtual box on windows vista.
I have installed Ubuntu as my guest os. Everything went fine and i was able to boot Ubuntu properly.
But when i tried to install the packages on Ubuntu (sudo apt-get install essential), i am getting the following error.
"E: package not found....."

Please help me.

venkat_k wrote:I am running virtual box on windows vista.
But when i tried to install the packages on Ubuntu (sudo apt-get install essential), i am getting the following error.
"E: package not found....."

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Peter

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reply.
I tried " sudo apt-get install build-essential" also.
I am suspecting issues with some settings in virtual box. It should check for the package in the cd drive (i.e D: in my system). why it is checking for E: and saying package not found?

-venkat

Linux doesn't "think" in terms C,D,E. That's windows-speak. If you get a message "E: Couldn't find package essential", then I think E=Error in this case. There is no package "essential" but there is a build-essential which is what you need. What is the exact error that you get when you request this, and have you done an sudo apt-get update recently?

Venkat_k, you did enable networking in your Guest, right? Set it to NAT and try to install it from the internet.

Thank u all for the replies.
I was able to install the required packages by keeping the vm in NAT mode and connecting to internet.