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While trying to install open mpi on my Ubuntu 12.04, I am getting error unable to locate package libopenmpi-dev. What to do?

$ sudo apt-get install libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin openmpi-doc
unable to locate package libopenmpi-dev
unable to locate package openmpi-bin
unable to locate package openmpi-doc
Tim
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Try to run apt-get update before you install the openmpi package.

Also you can use the following command to search all openmpi related package, for example:

apt-cache search openmpi

If it still doesn't work, try to use a different mirror, below is GUI and easier:

sudo software-properties-gtk

Update:

@Govind

The package is definitely in the official repository (12.04): http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libopenmpi-dev

As mentioned earlier, please run apt-get update and then apt-cache search for the libopenmpi packages.

If it still doesn't help. Try to change your mirror. Or paste the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list

Terry Wang
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I always run apt-get update and I was still getting the above error. The thing that did it for me was adding --no-install-recommends to the command.

For example:

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libopenmpi-dev

Hope that helps someone in the future.

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