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user@chrubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7   
[sudo] password for user: 
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:
 wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.19-0ubuntu2~trusty2) 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: 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: ttf-wqy-microhei
       Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
user@chrubuntu:~$

Trying to install wine1.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, and i'm not sure what this means, help is greatly appreciated. I already ran sudo apt-get update and get this:

Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

So I run apt-get update and:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

This is all very stressing because I have been trying to get Wine for the past week and had to reinstall and IT STILL WON'T WORK.

Rinzwind
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  • Make sure you do sudo apt-get update, if you forget the sudo you get the "Permission denied" errors you see. – Nattgew Jun 04 '14 at 19:41
  • What does sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386 say? – m132 Jun 04 '14 at 20:09
  • user@chrubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386 [sudo] password for user: user Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for user: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done Package wine1.7-i386 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 'wine1.7-i386' has no installation candidate That's what it says. I took other measures though... i'm not sure what I did.

     – user285207 Jun 05 '14 at 05:31

4 Answers4

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It seems that you are missing i386 support. You might want to try adding it.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
user294023
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The message about duplicate sources is just a warning, and can safely be ignored. Try

sudo apt-get -f install

it will (attempt to) install all missing dependencies to "repair" your packages (the -f is for "fix").

Seth
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fkraiem
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Try running the following three commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

If after doing this you get a message about duplicate wine entries, try running

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

Please note, the -r at the end tells add-apt-repository to remove a ppa, rather than adding one.

Also, you may want to try running your favorite text editor as a root user to remove the Google entries from /etc/apt/sources.list (for example, sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list). Save the file, and run sudo apt-get update.

TSJNachos117
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  1. Use your favorite text editor to open /etc/apt/sources.list (make a backup first)

  2. Change

    deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe

    to 

    deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe

  3. Run these commands

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

  4. Finally, install wine using aptitude

    sudo aptitude --full-resolver -f install wine1.7
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