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I tried to install lsblk, but I got this error message:
# apt-get install lsblk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package lsblk
I am using Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit.
If lsblk is not available then what is the best substitution for it?
Use blkid from the util-linux package instead:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install util-linux
blkid
From the @Oli's comment , lsblk was not included in the util-linux package for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS versions.
See this Ubuntu 10.04's util-linux package file list.So you can't able to run lsblk command on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall util-linux
Mar 14, 2014 at 11:52
(about ten years later) meet same situation on an old pc.
yes, ubuntu10 util-linux no lsblk command.
I steal a binary from other release version (maybe ubuntu14) util-linux deb,
and it just work.
# I use x86 system, you can find other arch in same directory of this link
$ wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.20.1-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
$ mkdir OUT
$ dpkg -x util-linux_2.20.1-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb OUT
$ ls -lh OUT/bin/lsblk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 chen chen 43K 2014-06-18 09:21 OUT/bin/lsblk
I tried util-linux v2.38.1.tar.gz.
not success, maybe system to old for the last version of util-linux.
I didn't try other version.
lsblkis a default command.Why did you try to install it.lsblk? What's the output ofecho $PATH?lsblkthe output of echo $PATH is/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games