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Hi All,
I am trying to install open-vm-tools in vmware because that seems to be the most recommended thing by vmware and I am getting the following error when i am trying to install
root@debian01:/home/admin1# apt-get install open-vm-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package open-vm-tools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'open-vm-tools' has no installation candidate
I have tried searching for it and it doesnt even come up on the search. ZERO results come up!
root@debian01:/home/admin1# apt-get install open-vm-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package open-vm-tools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'open-vm-tools' has no installation candidate
If you skipped the "setup network mirror" during the install, then you have to fix that yourself after first boot in order to update, upgrade or install from the repositories.
apt must be configured so that it knows from where to retrieve packages. The results of this configuration are written to the file /etc/apt/sources.list. You can examine and edit this file to your liking after the installation is complete.
Spend a little time getting this worked out and understanding it, then update and upgrade everything available IMO before installing any third party packages.
You don't have the main repositories in your sources. Comment out the CD lines and add lines as shown in the example at https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList . Then update again and your package should be available (as long as you are online).
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sunrat wrote:You don't have the main repositories in your sources. Comment out the CD lines and add lines as shown in the example at https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList . Then update again and your package should be available (as long as you are online).
Thanks sunrat!
This resolved the issue!
I added the following repositories from the link that was provided https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
Below is an example of a sources.list for Debian 8/Jessie.
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main