Both are available in Debian. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openbios
I imagine there's a status page for Ubuntu somewhere showing packaging problems but I wouldn't know where to look for that. ** Tags removed: no-installation-candidate openbios-sparc package-manager qemu ** Tags added: needs-packaging openbios -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423910 Title: openbios-sparc has no installation candidate Status in QEMU: Invalid Status in “openbios-sparc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When installing Qemu through apt-get, openbios-sparc is recommended, but, Package openbios-sparc 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 openbios-sparc has no installation candidate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/423910/+subscriptions