I am trying to install texlive-full but I'm running into the same issue from this post. However, I do not have a texlive related package from JonathanF's PPA, and need a different solution.
Here's my output from sudo apt install texlive-full:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
texlive-full : Depends: asymptote but it is not going to be installed
Depends: biber but it is not going to be installed
Depends: cm-super (>= 0.3.3-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: context but it is not going to be installed
Depends: dvipng but it is not going to be installed
Depends: feynmf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: fragmaster but it is not going to be installed
Depends: latex-cjk-all (>= 4.6.0+cvs20060714-2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: latexmk but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lmodern (>= 0.93.3) but it is not installable
Depends: prerex (> 6.5.3-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: purifyeps but it is not going to be installed
Depends: tex-gyre but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texinfo (>= 4.8)
Depends: texlive-base (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-bibtex-extra (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-binaries (>= 2017.20170524.44437) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-extra-utils (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-font-utils (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-fonts-extra (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-fonts-extra-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-fonts-extra-links (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-fonts-recommended (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-formats-extra (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-games (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-humanities (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-humanities-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-arabic (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-chinese (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-cjk (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-cyrillic (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-english (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-european (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-french (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-german (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-greek (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-italian (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-japanese (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-korean (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-other (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-polish (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-portuguese (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-lang-spanish (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-latex-base (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-latex-base-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-latex-extra-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-luatex (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-metapost (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-metapost-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-music (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-pictures (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-pictures-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-plain-generic (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-pstricks (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-pstricks-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-publishers (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-publishers-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-science (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-science-doc (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: texlive-xetex (>= 2017.20170628) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: tipa (>= 2:1.2-2.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: vprerex (> 6.5.3-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Here's the output from sudo apt-cache policy texlive-full:
texlive-full:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2017.20180305-1
Version table:
2017.20180305-1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
Result from running sudo apt install aptitude
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package aptitude 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 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
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