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I'm using a Linux VM on my Chromebook and I simply entered ipinfo and the command can't be found in any directory.

So I figured I would need to install it and entered :

sudo apt install ipinfo

and got

 E: unable to locate package ipinfo

Any help would be much appreciated!

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echo_LOGNAME
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    Which distribution is installed on that VM? (Debian, Ubuntu, Slack, Arch, SUSE, Fedora ...) - And what / where do you get the idea to install ipinfo (As in what is it). There are various different projects using this name. – ibuprofen Jul 04 '21 at 22:18
  • It's not an official Linux Distro, it's Chrome's integrated Linux development environment (beta) that can be turned on with the Chrome OS (version 9 or higher). The window that opens is the same app that opens the Crosh terminal but to open the app as is, it'll run this Linux VM with MyUserName@penguin:~$ at the command line. It doesn't seem to know certain commands like nano. I probably should just find the time to dual boot my Chromebook with the Chrome OS and Xubuntu, so I can switch between the two as necessary. – echo_LOGNAME Jul 19 '21 at 07:11
  • Ah. OK. But the dev thing uses apt package manager, so perhaps some Debian derivative? Form what I read Chrome-OS is Gentoo based and uses Portage. I do not know Chrome OS, and am at a loss. Strange one have to install Linux on a Linux system to get Linux tools ... but it is perhaps too far from Linux to be Linux heh. Anyhow: what package is it you are trying to install? Where do you have it from? As you already have found, there is no package named ipinfo in apt ... Perhaps switch the X/Y and state what you want to do :), and there is perhaps another package to do what you want. – ibuprofen Jul 19 '21 at 11:05
  • You can check out this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/88647/140633 , and run command(s) in your Linux shell. – ibuprofen Jul 19 '21 at 11:09

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