Linux compiling with linux

[ziggy46802]

Okay I'm following this tutorial and when I get to the part number 2. where you install all the packages, I try to install the first one and get this:

root@ubuntu:/etc/apt# apt-get install libboost1.41-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libboost1.41-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost1.41-dev'
root@ubuntu:/etc/apt#

So waht is wrong with this package how it is not downloading?

 

[Fallen]

Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Packages Search search for the correct package version according to your distro codename and version. Or, alternatively use:

apt-cache search <package name>

 

[ziggy46802]

Sorry if I'm such a noob at this, I've never used linux before, but this is my entire terminal

steven@ubuntu:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for steven:
root@ubuntu:/home/steven# apt-cache search libboost1.41-dev
root@ubuntu:/home/steven#

Why is it not saying "do you want to install?" or anything like that?

And how do I look up my distro code name and stuff? I'm using TFS 0.3.6 8.60 V5

 

[Fallen]

To look up full system information:
$ uname -a
and I said apt-cache search <package name> NOT package name and version.
$ apt-cache search libboost

 

[ziggy46802]

Okay so I did the first package and this comes up

root@ubuntu:/home/steven# apt-get install libboost1.41-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libboost1.41-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost1.41-dev'

Does this mean the package was installed or what do I need to do?

The tutorial says

If your apt says some packages are missing, make sure you have set repositories in /etc/sources.list. After you fix things around (distribution-independent), perform again step 1.

But how do I do that?

 

[Fallen]

Have you updated your system?
$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
And what does uname -a output?

 

[ziggy46802]

Yes, I did the upgrade and it worked fine.

uname -a outputs this:

root@ubuntu:/home/steven# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:/home/steven#