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I've just taken delivery of a Dell XPS 13 notebook with Ubuntu 14.04 installed. I set out to install SSH and found and installed openssh-client from the repositories with no problem. But when I try to install openssh-server, I'm notified that it can't be found in the repositories.

I've checked main, universe, and multiverse in the software center to no ail. Tried to get help from Dell tech support, got bounced around to Canonical support, only to be told that I needed to a member of some support program I've never heard of and am not particularly interested in.

Can any kinds soul please point the way to a successful openssh-server install?

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    Its in the main repo.. Did you run sudo apt-get update beforehand? If so, please edit the question and add the output of cat /etc/apt/sources.list
    – heemayl
    Jun 25, 2016 at 22:30
  • I've activated main. Get the following message with apt-get install ssh: "THe following packages have unmet dependencies: ssh : Depends: OpenSSL-server? E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken dependencies.
    – Lloyd R. Prentice
    Jun 26, 2016 at 2:30
  • This Dell's installation of Ubuntu on my brand new XPS 13.
    – Lloyd R. Prentice
    Jun 26, 2016 at 2:36

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Something is wrong with your package management. Please try apt-get -f install

If this does nothing try

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/packages/openssh-server*.deb

Post error messages and content of your /etc/apt/sources.list and sources.list.d/*.list files.

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  • Curious. I had tried apt-get -f install last night but still had problems. Tried again this morning re: your suggestion and, then, successfully installed both openssh-client and openssh-server. Many thanks Uwe and others who've helped.
    – Lloyd R. Prentice
    Jun 26, 2016 at 15:04
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Do apt-get update; apt-get install ssh

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