qemu: installation error | E: Package 'qemu' has no installation candidate

[Ansh-Sarkar]

Hi. Am new to this project and was trying out the steps mentioned in the get started guide. After cloning the repo when I tried to install the dependencies using the command,

sudo apt-get install mtools qemu

and obtained the following error,

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

I am using wsl2 (running ubuntu). A quick search (sudo apt search qemu*) of the available packages helped me quickly find the actual names of the compatible packages.

# > this worked
sudo apt install qemu-system-x86 qemu-system

Suggested Changes

• Update documentation to reflect this.

Resources

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1443212/qemu-not-installing