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I am trying to install KVM on Ubuntu 16.04, but I am getting stuck at very beginning.
I am unable to find the packages. Can someone help me? I did sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libvirt-bin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package qemu-kvm
E: Package 'libvirt-bin' has no installation candidate

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First make sure that all repositories are enabled, open Software & Updates and mark all sources :

software

Now open a terminal and execute the following commands to install all the packages needed :

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qemu qemu-kvm  

When you additionally want to use a GUI for the KVM virtualization environment, execute this :

sudo apt install virt-manager  

Additional information : qemu-kvm depends on the appropriate qemu-system-$arch package, which gets automatically installed alongside when installing the qemu meta package. The very same is valid for the libvirt-bin package and all other qemu and libvirt related packages.

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As far as qemu-kvm is concerned you can find the package here, select your architecture, download and install it with the package manager of your choice. aptitude is good at resolving dependencies that you may or may nor be aware of and is a good choice for these tasks. libvirt-bin is also available for xenial (16.04) through the under-utilized package search

Sources:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

What's the difference between package managers?

Is aptitude still considered superior to apt-get?

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