Question
Cannot install SSH.
- Posted on April 16, 2018
- DigitalOceanUbuntu 16.04
Asked by hello9c064b946dc1727a8aea7
The password for one of our user names wasn’t allowing us to login. We changed the password, but had the issue again. In attempt to fix this I reset the SSH. Now ssh will not reinstall.
When trying to re-install the server we get the following errors
“Openssh-server” has no installation candidate" and "Package openssh-server is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean the the package is missing, has been obsolete , or is only available from another source.
E: Unable to locate package ssh E: Package 'openssh-server" has no installation candidate
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if you use ubuntu 16.04 or debian jessie OS than double check your sourcelist
step 1 Debian sourcelist sourcelist
ubuntu 1604 xenial sourcelist
step 2 after you can update your repo list and install openssh-server
if you any problems with apt-get update than
and goto step 2 and run the commands again
Dont forget to stay over the droplet console while reinstall your ssh server.
Sorry you’re having trouble. Did you first run
apt-get updatebefore attempting to install openssh-server?