Can't install or run Wine

Question

I am a pretty novice user and have just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my six year-old laptop as a dual boot with Windows. I installed with the simple Windows Installer and haven't done any major adjustments to Ubuntu other than to install the beta of Google Music Uploader for Ubuntu.

I just recently tried to use get Wine so I can run EAC (Exact Audio Copy). However, whenever I run the command in the terminal to get Wine 1.5, I errors.

For example, if I out in this command: "sudo apt-get install wine"

I get this:

"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:
 wine : Depends: wine1.5 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

When I input this "sudo apt-get install wine1.5" I get this:

"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:
 wine1.5 : Depends: wine1.5-i386 (= 1.5.25-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
           Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer but it is not going to be installed or
                       kde-runtime but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-droid but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-horai-umefont but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fonts-unfonts-core but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: winbind but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

Before this I tried the same with Wine1.4. Same error messages.

Any ideas? I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and the open-source world, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Stephen · Answer 1 · 2013-03-02T04:31:55.877

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Try following the instructions here. They are pretty easy to follow.

Hope this helps!

edited Mar 02 '13 at 04:31

answered Mar 02 '13 at 03:57

Stephen

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Just tried this. Still getting the "package dependencies cannot be resolved" with those instructions. – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 04:48
@user136862 I have had a similar problem before. Have you tried installing it via synaptic? – Stephen Mar 02 '13 at 05:14
Nope. Totally ignorant as to Synaptic. I'm pretty new to Ubuntu. How would I go about trying that? – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 05:16
@user136862 press alt+F2, type in synaptic, press enter. Then after synaptic starts type wine into the search bar. Then click on the check-mark box next to what want to install. A menu should come up, then click on mark for installation. Then click on the the big Apply button somewhere on the top. – Stephen Mar 02 '13 at 05:21
Try sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get install wine If this does not fix the problem then follow the instructions in this Package Manager Troubleshooting Procedure and we will try to help you on the Launchpad Ubuntu Answers Forum – Warren Hill Mar 02 '13 at 11:00
Just went through the Package Manager Troubleshooting Procedure guide. Posted the question at the Forum under Question #223259 – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 23:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '13 at 04:04

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First check your repositories and give us if possible. If everything was ok then sudo apt-get update may fix this. Else try to install it from ppa:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

answered Mar 02 '13 at 04:04

Mostafa Shahverdy

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Dumb question: how do I check the repositories? As said, I am a novice to this. – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 04:33
Go to system settings > Software sources > Other software. Some ppa can cause trouble. make sure that every thing is standard. – Mostafa Shahverdy Mar 02 '13 at 04:36
There are 4 things:
Added by software-center; credentials stored in /etc/apt/auth.conf http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu

Obviously one of those is the Google Music Manager.
– user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 04:53
Try to remove them (wine ppa) first, then sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install wine if it was done then bingo! else re add them using commands above, and try to install again. Hope it works ... – Mostafa Shahverdy Mar 02 '13 at 05:05
No dice. Cleared out the wine ppa, ran the commands, no dice. Tried the above commands before that. No dice. Any other approach I should take? – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 05:14
This is not a standard solution, but helped me a lot. Install synaptic, and using synaptic try to install wine, then it will give you error that some packages are not going to install, so you try to install them, and follow this step while you can find the exact package that is not going to install, then we can think about it more. (synaptic make it easier to follow dependency tree) – Mostafa Shahverdy Mar 02 '13 at 05:23
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I'll have to try synaptic tomorrow. It's midnight where I am and I must sleep. Thanks! I'll try it later and will report back – user136862 Mar 02 '13 at 05:29

Can't install or run Wine

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