Problems installing packages

Greetings, all.

I am new here and reasonably new to all of this VPS business, having been dragged kicking and screaming out of my darkened basement full of hastily cobbled together servers running various older OSs, and into the internets.

I have been installing some bits and pieces that I need on the Linode that a friend has rented and asked me to help set up.

Please bear with me, I've not used a VPS before, nor Ubuntu.

Whilst I have managed to get about 60% of what I need done, I am stuck on the installation of a number of packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and the search engines haven't been kind enough to reveal to me exactly what I am seeking.

I've also searched and gone through the forums here but can't seem to solve the below issues.

Any ideas on how to solve the below?

I am trying to install the below using apt-get and receive the following error:

> Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

E: Couldn't find package [package name]

* - php-xml

- php-mbstring

- php5-zip

- libcurl13

- libcurl13-dev

- php-pdo

- Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

- Minify

- PHPExcel

- PHP QR Code Encoder

- PHP Unit 3.4.2

- Sozfo Form Extension

- TeraWURFL

- WURFL

- DataTables

- Markerclusterer

- Qtip

- jQuery tablePagination plugin

- ajaxupload.js

- colorpicker.js

- jQuery watermark plugin

- DD_Roundies

- jQuery chainedselect plugin

- jQuery maxlength plugin</list> 

I've tried all kinds of combinations of the module and plugin names as suggested by the search engines, but no luck.

With GeoIP, I can kind of install it via apt-get however the full pecl install has numerous errors. Please see below:

> name@server:~$ sudo pecl install geoip

downloading geoip-1.0.8.tgz …

Starting to download geoip-1.0.8.tgz (10,061 bytes)

…..done: 10,061 bytes

5 source files, building

running: phpize

Configuring for:

PHP Api Version: 20090626

Zend Module Api No: 20090626

Zend Extension Api No: 220090626

building in /tmp/pear/temp/pear-build-rootfbVym6/geoip-1.0.8

running: /tmp/pear/temp/geoip/configure

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /bin/grep

checking for egrep… /bin/grep -E

checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /bin/sed

checking for cc… cc

checking whether the C compiler works… yes

checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out

checking for suffix of executables…

checking whether we are cross compiling… no

checking for suffix of object files… o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes

checking whether cc accepts -g… yes

checking for cc option to accept ISO C89… none needed

checking how to run the C preprocessor… cc -E

checking for icc… no

checking for suncc… no

checking whether cc understands -c and -o together… yes

checking for system library directory… lib

checking if compiler supports -R… no

checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,… yes

checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for PHP prefix… /usr

checking for PHP includes… -I/usr/include/php5 -I/usr/include/php5/main -I/usr/include/php5/TSRM -I/usr/include/php5/Zend -I/usr/include/php5/ext -I/usr/include/php5/ext/date/lib -DLARGEFILESOURCE -DFILEOFFSET_BITS=64

checking for PHP extension directory… /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs

checking for PHP installed headers prefix… /usr/include/php5

checking if debug is enabled… no

checking if zts is enabled… no

checking for re2c… no

configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.

checking for gawk… no

checking for nawk… nawk

checking if nawk is broken… no

checking for geoip support… yes, shared

checking for geoip files in default path… not found

configure: error: Please reinstall the geoip distribution

ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/geoip/configure' failed
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Any modicum of help or directions would be much appreciated, though for now, I must sleep.

Cheers,

Judas