Package 'Openbsd-Inetd' Has No Installation Candidate

When I try to install openbsd-inetd, it shows

root@amsys-G41MT-S2PT:/home/amsys# sudo apt-get install openbsd-inetd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package openbsd-inetd 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 'openbsd-inetd' has no installation candidate

What is meaning of E: Package 'openbsd-inetd' has no installation candidate?

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It seems that the package does exist (package search here). My only suggestion is that you have somehow incomplete package listings.

Try this command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update

The retry

sudo apt-get install openbsd-inetd

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