I am having a problem with installing bind9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have installed a Plesk 11 server but DNS service is not running.

root@cp11:~# apt-get install bind

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package bind 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

However the following packages replace it:

  bind9 dnsutils dnsutils:i386 bind9:i386 manpages



E: Package 'bind' has no installation candidate

root@cp11:~# 



root@cp11:~# /etc/init.d/bind9 start

 * Starting domain name service... bind9                                                                                              [fail] 



root@cp11:~# /etc/init.d/bind9 restart

 * Stopping domain name service... bind9                                                                                              [ OK ] 

 * Starting domain name service... bind9                                                                                              [fail] 

When I try to check the log file:

root@cp11:~# tail -f /var/log/messages

tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory

I checked in /etc and there is a bind directory

root@cp11:/etc/bind# ls

bind.keys  db.127  db.empty  db.root     named.conf.default-zones  named.conf.options  rndc.key

db.0       db.255  db.local  named.conf  named.conf.local          rndc.conf           zones.rfc1918

When I try to uninstall bind9 it also removes the Plesk control panel.

So I updated and the upgraded the packages and I see bind error:

root@cp11:~# apt-get upgrade

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic

Processing triggers for resolvconf ...

Processing triggers for python-support ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bind9

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)