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I am running Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and I am having issues to install the ecrypt-utils app. See the output below:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install  ecryptfs-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ecryptfs-utils 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 'ecryptfs-utils' has no installation candidate

Any help is much appreciated.

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Answer

The package ecryptfs-utils is available in the universe repository.

To enable the universe repo, do the following:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ecryptfs-utils

Further explanation:

Looking up packages

You can look up packages at https://packages.ubuntu.com/ Make sure you select the correct distribution (in your case Bionic, which corresponds to 18.04).

When you search for ecryptfs-utils you get the following:

Package ecryptfs-utils

[bionic (18.04LTS)][1] (misc): ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities) [universe]
111-0ubuntu5: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x

As you can see, the package is available for 18.04 in the universe repository. You enable universe via the above-mentioned steps.

Repositories

A repository (oftentimes abbreviated to repo) is the name Ubuntu gives to an archive where software is stored. Ubuntu uses four main repositories:

  1. Main
  2. Universe
  3. Restricted
  4. Multivers

The universe repository contains "Community-maintained free and open-source software". For more info, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

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