"Unable to locate package" for exa on WSL 2 Ubuntu

Question

I'm trying to install exa on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on WSL 2. Whenever I type sudo apt install exa, I get this response:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package exa  

I saw that the apt repository for exa is universe, so I ran sudo add-apt-repository universe but it says:

'universe' distribution component is already enabled for all sources.

I've been able to install other packages like docker just fine using apt install. I'm still super new to Linux in general, so any help would be appreciated. What am I missing?

Solution

The groovy name is 20.10, not 20.04 LTS. So this package is not available for 20.04 LTS.

But you can install it manually with:

wget -c http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/rust-exa/exa_0.9.0-4_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./exa_0.9.0-4_amd64.deb

and test it via:

$ exa --version
exa v0.9.0

Comments

[Abhay]

Thank you so much! Where did you get that URL from? Also, my processor is Intel x64 - why is the file named ...amd64.deb?

[N0rbert]

Such URL are found using search on packages.ubuntu.com , from the rust-exa download page.

[Szundi]

amd64 means it is for 64 bit architecture that was designed by AMD back then

[Jaber Al Nahian]

When installing, I get this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: exa : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[N0rbert]

@JaberAlNahian Please be more specific. I have just tested above method on fresh 20.04 LTS docker container. What is your Ubuntu version?