E: Package 'haveged' has no installation candidate

[Marcos Barrera]

Hello!

I am following the installation guide to intall BBB for the first time and I am getting this error "E: Package 'haveged' has no installation candidate" when I use this command

sudo apt-get install haveged. The complete error is:

sudo apt-get install haveged
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package haveged 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 'haveged' has no installation candidate

What can I do? If I continue with the steps, the command that install BBB does not work.

Regards

Marcos

[Marcos Barrera]

I am Installing in Ubuntu 16.04.

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Marcos,

Can you post the output of

  apt-cache show haveged

Here's what we see on one of our test servers

# apt-cache show haveged

Package: haveged

Priority: extra

Section: universe/misc

Installed-Size: 73

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original-Maintainer: Jérémy Bobbio <lu...@debian.org>

Architecture: amd64

Version: 1.9.1-3

Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), libc6 (>= 2.15), libhavege1 (>= 1.9.0), init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~)

Filename: pool/universe/h/haveged/haveged_1.9.1-3_amd64.deb

Size: 28002

MD5sum: ea491c74e5bfdaede6be40dcb6edaf7a

SHA1: 38826a5e646db2c438bbc0fe9c4d325f1a5caf17

SHA256: 9bcc17a64475ad37a5aa2b245a850fde10886190e3511505df50196a229a6424

Description-en: Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm

 haveged is a userspace entropy daemon which is not dependent upon the

 standard mechanisms for harvesting randomness for the system entropy

 pool. This is important in systems with high entropy needs or limited

 user interaction (e.g. headless servers).

 .

 haveged uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion)

 to maintain a 1M pool of random bytes used to fill /dev/random

 whenever the supply of random bits in dev/random falls below the low

 water mark of the device.

 .

 More information about HAVEGE is available at

 http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/

Description-md5: e29e090ec35dfe759c8580ce04904d0c

Homepage: http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Origin: Ubuntu

Can you also post the output of 

   cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Here's what we see on one of our test servers

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

#

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to

# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial main restricted

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the

## distribution.

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu

## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any

## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial universe

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial universe

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial-updates universe

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu

## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to

## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in

## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu

## security team.

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial multiverse

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial-updates multiverse

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as

## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes

## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.

## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review

## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.ovh.net/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's

## 'partner' repository.

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the

## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.

# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted

# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe

# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse

# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse

In particular, make sure you have the xenail multiverse enabled in sources.list, see

 http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#1-update-your-server

Regards,.. Fred

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[Marcos Barrera]

Hi Fred,

The haveged is still giving me trouble:

root@cl-t072-256cl:~# apt-cache show haveged
N: Can't select versions from package 'haveged' as it is purely virtual
N: No packages found

In the other hand, the other command gave me a similar response:

root@cl-t072-256cl:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial main restricted

# deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates main restricted
# deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security main restricted

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial main restricted
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates main restricted
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial universe
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial universe
#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates universe
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial multiverse
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial multiverse
#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates multiverse
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-updates multiverse

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security main restricted
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security main restricted
#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security universe
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security universe
#deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security multiverse
# deb-src http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial-security multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse

Also, the echo commande gaves me this:

root@cl-t072-256cl:~# echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi Marcos,

Thanks for posting the output

> In the other hand, the other command gave me a similar response:

Similar, but not the same.  From our output of `apt-cache show haveged`, you can see that haveged is in the universe/misc 

> Section: universe/misc

But in your sources.list, this repository is commented and not accessible to apt-get

> #deb http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ xenial universe

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[Marcos Barrera]

Hi Fred. 

 

I need to uncomment that line?

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi Marcos,

Yes.  I did some googling and found the following page that may help

  https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

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[Ali Shhabat]

Please help me because im facing the same issue 

[Matthias Weiler]

Your Ubuntu installation is probably missing the "universe" repository.

open issue: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install/issues/70