install-deps failed on Ubuntu 18.04 due to "E: Package 'python-software-properties' has no installation candidate"

[Vimos]

➜  .torch git:(master) bash install-deps                          
Hit:1 http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                        
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                                          
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease                         
Hit:6 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                          
Hit:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease                                   
Hit:8 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                                  
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu bionic InRelease  
Hit:10 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                      
Updated successfully.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python-software-properties 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
However the following packages replace it:
  software-properties-common

E: Package 'python-software-properties' has no installation candidate

System info

➜  .torch git:(master) cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

[Vimos]

Oh, I don't even know about this! Thanks a lot!

For those who may meet this problem, comment out the line can get around the issue:

diff --git a/install-deps b/install-deps
index b1d5a4d..f900993 100755
--- a/install-deps
+++ b/install-deps
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ elif [[ "$(uname)" == 'Linux' ]]; then
             echo "Some portion of the update is failed"
         fi
         # python-software-properties is required for apt-add-repository
-        sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties
+        # sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties
         echo "==> Found Ubuntu version ${ubuntu_major_version}.xx"
         if [[ $ubuntu_major_version -lt '12' ]]; then
             echo '==> Ubuntu version not supported.'

[gyang274]

Would it be better to add software-properties-common instead?

# sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common

Thanks.

[tastyminerals]

Keep in mind that you can install dependencies by hand by looking at required packages for ubuntu in install-deps shell script, especially if you have some ubuntu-based distro. This script can be simply skipped once you have the majority of packages installed.

[ZhangYK124]

same here... Do you have a solution?

[sangtei]

i have the same problem. finally i could solve it by replacing the line sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties by sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common in install-deps. hope it helps

[marwon34]

- ERROR : python-software-properties package was unable to be installed

Kali Linux 2019.1

[sanamlamichhane]

➜  .torch git:(master) bash install-deps                          
Hit:1 http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                        
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                                          
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease                         
Hit:6 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                          
Hit:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease                                   
Hit:8 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                                  
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu bionic InRelease  
Hit:10 http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                      
Updated successfully.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python-software-properties 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
However the following packages replace it:
  software-properties-common

E: Package 'python-software-properties' has no installation candidate

System info

➜  .torch git:(master) cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

same problem please help me solve this