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I'm running the latest version of ubuntu 64 bit (14.04) on a computer that is only a few weeks old. I can't install wine with the software center or the command line. I have tried every simple fix like manually adding the repository and upgrading which doesn't help at all. I have also tried different variations of the install command like apt-get install wine1.6:amd64, apt-get install wine1.6 -f, etc. I have tried installing a different version of wine also to no avail. This might look like a question with lots of duplicates but it isn't, I have looked at all the similar ones and their solutions are either non existent or non functional in my case.

I get the following error message with the software center:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine1.6: Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4) but 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 is to be installed
         Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4) but it is a virtual package

And the following error if I try using the command line:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

All the variations of the install command give me similar errors.

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Have you tried using Synaptic or Aptitude? Should be able to search for & install specific packages from there, and I read aptitude "tries harder" when confronted with some errors.

Did you search for the "held broken packages" solutions? Tried dpkg --get-selections | grep hold and un-hold or remove them? Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

I'd also guess your repositories are a little messed up, wine's in the standard repos (main, restricted, universe, multiverse, etc) & shouldn't need anything special. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu or the section from this answer "Restoring the default Ubuntu sources.list"

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  • I tried using aptitude and it doesn't do the job either. I can't use synaptics because it claims that in order to install wine I first have to uninstall all of my programs including ones required to keep my computer running. – user363013 Dec 31 '14 at 16:39
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Well as it turns out this issue was not fixable. At least not by using any method that I found for fixing dependencies. I reinstalled ubuntu and it is now installing.

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