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I purged all traces of previous versions of texlive after doing the upgrade to 18.04, but I cannot now install texlive, texlive-full, or texlive-xetex.

For example, sudo apt install texlive gives me the message:

 Package texlive 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 'texlive' has no installation candidate

Likewise sudo apt-cache policy texlive gives me

 texlive
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: (none)
    Version table:

I can install texlive-base, but I need texlive-xetex

Lou Burnard
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  • This is strange. I have Ubuntu 18.04 and installed texlive-xetex. There is information that package exists https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/texlive-xetex. I have version 2017.20180305-1. I can find no information that it is not available for 18.04. The same applies for texlive and texlive-full. I have all of them installed. – nobody Jun 07 '18 at 18:32
  • What does apt show texlive show you? Can you post the output? I've installed texlive on ubuntu 18.04 without any problems too. – abu_bua Jun 07 '18 at 19:55
  • Do you have universe repository enabled (run sudo add-apt-repository universe if unsure)? Are you sure that sudo apt-get update ran successfully? Please add output of its errors and output of apt-cache policy texlive texlive-full texlive-xetex to the question. – N0rbert Jun 07 '18 at 21:43
  • Many thanks N0rbert! It's always the things you take for granted that catch you out! I had indeed failed to enable the universe; once i did that, everything ran just fine. Thanks again! – Lou Burnard Jun 08 '18 at 20:06

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Follow these instructions did the trick for me: 

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install texlive-xetex

(thanks to N0rbert for pointing out to enable the universe repository)

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