I'm following a tutorial that says I need to run sudo apt-get update and then install a whole bunch of packages. All of them work, except policykit. It gives me Unable to locate package policykit. Is there something I need to do to help ubuntu find it. I'm new to ubuntu so not sure how this works, or if I need to put the ubuntu installation CD for this to work or what.
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A general suggestion:
Whenever you are in such situation, try the following command to locate the package:
apt-cache search packagename And after that try to install the packgae which reads as packagename-dev or libpackage name
sudo apt-get install packagename-dev The package you are looking for is installed using:
sudo apt-get install policykit-1 You can search for packages using:
apt-cache search policykit 
