Cannot find the graphviz package in apt on 18.04.1 LTS

Question

I'm trying to install graphviz on 18.04 but when I try to install it it says it is unavailable, despite being listed as having been released for 18.04: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/bionic/universe/base/graphviz

I ran apt-get update and it is still missing from the repos. Does anyone know where to find it, or a PPA I could add to install it from?

Solution

I found the answer myself, I didn't have the "Universe" repository enabled in Ubuntu. I just had to run the following

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update

And then installing it worked with

sudo apt install graphviz

Comments

[user535733]

Graphviz recently moved from Main (16.04 and older) to Universe (18.04 and newer). See How do I enable the "Universe" repository?

[William Rosenbloom]

You should mark this as the answer. It was a life saver for me.

[ChickenOverlord]

Done. Yeah I was trying to install Netbox, and sadly the Netbox guide didn't havee a tip along the lines of "Ubuntu Server doesn't have all the official Ubuntu repos enabled by default" which would have saved me the original headache too. It probably didn't because the repo it's in changed from 16.04 to 16.08

[sarki_roka]

if you cannot add repo by name, see this: askubuntu.com/questions/148638/…

[Admin]

bash: add-apt-repository: command not found

[Admin]

@Owl Whether or not this works may depend on the version of Ubuntu you're running, but you may need to run "sudo apt-get install software-properties-common" to get the add-apt-repository command added

[Admin]

@ChickenOverlord that fixed it, nice work!