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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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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)

dmishra
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varsh
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