E: Package 'curl' has no installation candidate

I am trying to install nodejs in ubuntu and I need to use curl but it does not allow me to install curl it shows me this error every time I try to install it

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Package curl 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: Package 'curl' has no installation candidate

I tryied to update but error is the same all the time

1 Answer

Try this:

sudo sed -i -e 's/ /etc/apt/sources.list

and then do sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install curl

You can also install node like this

sudo apt install nodejs