why is apt not able to locate the package once ran via script?

hakim00

2/7/24, 1:18 AM

I have this Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine (vagrant) which I'm trying to append packages to with the following shell script

apt e.g.

firefox
flux
libimage-exiftool-perl 
perl-doc
vlc
wireshark
automake
openvpn
postgresql
telnet
tmux
wget

setup.sh

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt upgrade -y
cat software/apt | while read line 
do
sudo apt-get install -y "$line"
done

aswell as similar approaches for snaps and adding .deb packages followed by dist-upgrade.

Running the script returns

 default: E: Unable to locate package firefox

Installing the packages manually, works fine.

Why? I'm trying to deploy a set of packages. How would you approach this?

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steeldriver

2/7/24, 1:28 AM

Can you please include a few complete verbatim error messages (not obfuscated with `...`). Did you create the `software/apt` in a Windows text editor?

hakim00

2/7/24, 1:34 AM

I've edited the Question, ... is the package name. All files were created on windows, within VSCode.

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