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It seems like a lot of folks have had problems installing 3rd party software with the Software Center. The usual suggestion is to install and use gdebi instead. However, when I try to do that I get an error:

sudo apt-get install gdebi
E: could not find package gdebi

I'm running a new installation of 16.04 LTS desktop installed on a USB drive.

So how do I work around this?

fosslinux
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coondawg
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sudo apt-get install gdebi-core

Note that in general you can search for packages using:

apt-cache search <search_term>

So for example:

apt-cache search gdebi

returns info on the gdebi-core, gdebi (GNOME GUI), and gdebi-kde (KDE GUI) packages.

amc
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