E Error pkgProblemResolver

Question

Good day

Please excuse my ignorance as I am not a Linux/Unix person, I am a network engineer trying to learn automation.  So want to apologies ahead of time for all the bone head questions I am posing.  Here we go.......

I am trying to install Anisble on my VM running Ubuntu 18.04.  I followed up on all the updates I am suppose to follow up on but when it comes to installing the Ansible part that is where all the issues begin.

I run the following:

 sudo apt install ansible
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:
 ansible : Depends: python-httplib2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I figured ok all I need to do is install  python-httplib2 so I run the following:

sudo apt install python-httplib2
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:
 libboost-regex1.65-dev : Depends: libicu-dev but it is not going to be installed
 python-httplib2 : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
                   Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
                   Depends: ca-certificates but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

So I go and install all the dependencies but when I try again I keep getting the same errors as above what am I doing wrong??

Thank you in advance!!