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I'm trying to install XnView multi platform on my Kubuntu 14.04.

It is available in the Ubuntu apps directory (see here) but apturl - as well as apt-get install xnviewmp - gives the error unable to find the package.

Can't figure out what went wrong!

Any ideas?

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Release: 14.04

Codename: trusty

sources.list file: http://pastebin.com/EZBbta7m

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To install, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xnview

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Or you can download the.deb file here, and install it. I would use Gdebi to install, if you don't have it just do

sudo apt-get install gdebi

You can install it from there, but its an older version 0.51. To install from there, just click

Install via the software center

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  • Thank you but I knew about that PPA.. How come that XnView is listed in the Ubuntu apps directory and we can not simply install it from there? – pr.nizar Aug 15 '14 at 19:00
  • See additions in my answer. – Mitch Aug 15 '14 at 19:05
  • Thank you man but I knew about the PPA and the download from the XnView's website. What I was asking is why I could not install it from the official repositories of Ubuntu? (both sudo apt-get install xnviewmp and the Ubuntu Software Center (from [the link you gave me](https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/trusty/xnviewmp/)) give me the error package not found)! (Canonical partners, Ubuntu Extras, Main, Universe, Multiverse.. are all activated) – pr.nizar Aug 15 '14 at 19:47
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    What you could try is to regenerate your sources.list. Visit [Ubuntu Sources List Generator](http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/). After that run `sudo apt-get update`, and try again. You can also take a look at http://askubuntu.com/questions/378558/unable-to-locate-package-for-all-packages – Mitch Aug 15 '14 at 20:02
  • Still the same thing even after checking all the repos.. Thank you anyway I've downloaded the deb from the website and installed it that way. :-) – pr.nizar Aug 15 '14 at 22:27