"E: Package ‘synaptic’ has no installation candidate" when trying to install synaptic

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Published on 2012-05-09T16:32:34Z Indexed on 2012/12/09 23:44 UTC
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ilshat@lpt:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package synaptic 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 ‘synaptic’ has no installation candidate
  • I have tried doing a sudo apt-get update but that doesn't work.

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