Package jenkins 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 'jenkins' has no installation candidate
This is the wrror you got. Yes it made me crazy. Anyways, I’m not a person who is giving up something if we think it’s hard. Sometimes, i sleep and get up, then problem can be solved. This thing was on the same board. Anyways, let’s get into the topic.
Above error came when I was trying to install jenkins server on Linode. I have experienced so many VPS services such as Digital Ocean, AWS, Indian VPS and so many. However, some VPS game me a very huge headeche and I just removed them from my list. Anyways, Linode is one of my best service provide. I can’t blame them for this issue.
However, try the following code lines to fix that error. I have already written two articles about jenkins installation. They also will be worked on some servers. (I experienced them on AWS).
Add Jenkins Apt-Get Repository Key (you must install jdk before this line. Check my other articles.)
wget -q -O - https://jenkins-ci.org/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add Jenkins to the Sources List
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/debian binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
Update Your Local apt-get Repository
sudo apt-get update
Just install Jenkins. You won’t see that error again.
sudo apt-get install jenkins
OK Cool! Have a great day. Come back again.
