# Package 'abinit' has no installation candidate

**URL:** <https://discourse.abinit.org/t/package-abinit-has-no-installation-candidate/79>\
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**Created:** [January 22, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.abinit.org/t/package-abinit-has-no-installation-candidate/79 "2021-01-22T02:23:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![yuanjie](https://discourse.abinit.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ec9cab/32.png) [@yuanjie](https://discourse.abinit.org/u/yuanjie)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.abinit.org/t/package-abinit-has-no-installation-candidate/79/1 "2021-01-22T02:23:26Z")

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Install a precompiled version of ABINIT, just type:  
sudo apt install abinit  
and got the error:  
E: Package ‘abinit’ has no installation candidate

I have alreadg implemented “apt update” and “apt upgrade”, so what’s the problem and how to fix that?

Thank you so much for your kindly help.

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**Author:** ![jbeuken](https://discourse.abinit.org/user_avatar/discourse.abinit.org/jbeuken/32/8_2.png) [@jbeuken](https://discourse.abinit.org/u/jbeuken)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.abinit.org/t/package-abinit-has-no-installation-candidate/79/2 "2021-05-11T08:48:12Z")

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Hi,

Officially, we do not build packages for Abinit…  
But, there are some possible sources anyway:

- [GitHub - abinit/abiconda: Conda recipes for the abiconda channel.](https://github.com/abinit/abiconda)

- under Ubuntu 18.04 (old version ) :

> apt search abinit
> 
> abinit/bionic 8.0.8-4 amd64  
> package for electronic structure calculations
> 
> abinit-data/bionic,bionic 8.0.8-4 all  
> package for electronic structure calculations (Data files)
> 
> abinit-doc/bionic,bionic 8.0.8-4 all  
> package for electronic structure calculations (Documentation)

- nothing under Ubuntu 20.04