ubuntu-16.10 unable to locate package

Question

I have recently setup Ubuntu 16.10 and am trying to install PuTTY but keep getting an 'E: Unable to locate package putty' error. I have run both 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade'. Both complete with success. I have verified that 'main', 'universe', 'restricted', and 'multiverse' are all enabled. But I continue to get the error when trying to install PuTTY. This is the command I'm using 'sudo apt install putty'. Any thoughts on what might be going on?

Answer 1

I was able to finally determine that 16.10 was just too old to update properly. I have moved to 18.04 and successfully installed PuTTY.

Answer 2

This is a common problem when you follow the instructions on the PuTTY website.

Here is how to solve it for ubuntu:

instead of:

sudo apt-get install PuTTY

use:

sudo apt install putty

As expected the package is case sensitive but somehow even PuTTY haven't figured it out.