Azure – Connecting Azure Ubuntu virtual machine from Windows – resolving error – “E: unable to locate package xfce4”

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Greetings for the day 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂

Today new issue and solution 🙂

Background :

I was preparing demo for my Docker / Containers session. For this purpose in my Azure trial I have created UBUNTU / Linux box. I need to connect my Ubuntu box using RDP. To connect Ubuntu box using RDP we need to perform several steps, we have detailed article here – Connecting Linux VM hosted in Azure from Windows 10 using RDP

One of the step is install xfce4 – Desktop Virtual Environment. We need to install xfce4 using SSH with following command as

sudo apt-get -y install xfce4

While executing above command we were getting an error

Error :

E: unable to locate package xfce4″

Detailed error :

Reading package list… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

E: unable to locate package xfce4″

Solution :

We need to enable universe repository, need to execute following commands

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update

once we executed following commands successfully we are able to install the package xfce4 🙂

Thanks for reading 🙂 HAVE A GREAT TIME AHEAD 🙂