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I want to install some applications but for any installation command it says that this package has no installation candidate. I can't even run sudo apt-get update. 

cookie98@cookie98**:~$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
[sudo] password for cookie98: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package software-properties-common 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 'software-properties-common' has no installation candidate

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Zanna
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Dhruvin modi
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When I had the "no installation candidate" issue (but with a different installation), the problem was with my /etc/apt/sources.list. It might help to check yours

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted universe multiverse 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
Zanna
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Cyberian Deprochan
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