Cannot install Wine (held broken packages)

Question

I 'm trying to install Wine on my Ubuntu system, but cannot complete the installation. I have read countless other Q & A but none of them seems to fix my problem. When I try to install it with

sudo apt-get install wine

I get this message:

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: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I tried with Synaptic: (wine package has an exclamation mark instead of a check)

Could not apply changes!  
Fix broken packages first.

I click to fix the packages and then this error occurs:

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

I have also tried commands like

sudo apt-get remove wine
sudo aptitude search wine
sudo dpkg -p Wine

but none of them worked as well. I 'm so confused right now that I might be missing something simple. I 'm a new Ubuntu user, so I don 't know advanced methods and terminal commands. Am I doing something wrong? I have only tried solutions and commands posted in this forum. Thanks in advance for the help!

Edit: After I ran

uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy wine wine1.6; sudo apt-get remove wine; sudo apt-get install -f I get:

Linux tommy-Lenovo-Z50-75 3.19.0-33-generic #38~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:17:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

apt-cache policy wine wine1.6

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.7.50-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:1.7.50-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
wine1.6:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
     1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

sudo apt-get remove wine

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'wine' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done

sudo apt-get install -f

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Edit: I tried

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
$ sudo apt-get install wine

even after running sudo apt-get update. The problem remains.

Edit (last and final): After an unsuccessful attempt to determine the broken packages, I will format my laptop to Ubuntu Gnome (latest version). Current version I run 14.04 LTS with Unity. Thanks for all your help, this thread should be closed. It seems my system is missing some packages so since it is freshly installed (2 weeks ago) I will just format it again. Thanks again for all the responses!

[Edit] your question and add the output of uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy wine wine1.6; sudo apt-get remove wine; sudo apt-get install -f — A.B., Nov 11 '15 at 16:42
Don't use screenshots for the output. Restart the commands again an ad the output to your question. — A.B., Nov 11 '15 at 20:23
I agree with A.B.. You can copy and paste terminal content similar to most other GUI application. — David Foerster, Nov 11 '15 at 23:00
Looking at the terminal output, it's unclear, what prevented the installation of the wine package. The underlying issue might have been resolved by some intermediary action. Can you try to run sudo apt-get install wine again and include its output in your question, please? — David Foerster, Nov 11 '15 at 23:02
Have you tried sudo apt-get remove --purge wine ? That might do it. Also, trying autoremove in place of remove could work. — Raven Underwood, Nov 11 '15 at 16:44
sorry to keep you waiting guys, I was away. Thanks for the fast responses. I 'm editing the question now. — Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi, Nov 12 '15 at 22:16
Sorry guys I do not know how am I supposed to work in these situations... I don't really have an idea of what I'm doing. I have too little experience in Ubuntu. — Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi, Nov 13 '15 at 13:32
Run sudo apt-get purge wine; sudo apt-get install -f Add the output here http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and give me the link. — A.B., Nov 13 '15 at 13:41
http://paste.ubuntu.com/13247452/ (also thanks for the advice) — Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi, Nov 13 '15 at 13:49
It is worth mentioning that what blocks wine1.7 from being installed in Ubuntu 15.10 is absence of the libgphoto2 package once I have downloaded and installed it manually I could install Wine without problems. — Ivan, Nov 15 '15 at 18:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 13 '15 at 08:31

Type the following into a terminal:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
$ sudo apt-get install wine

This should remove any held packages, and properly install Wine. Also make sure that you did not install Wine from source.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 13 '15 at 09:29

0

You currently do not have any problem ... proved by :

$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

The PPA also does not have problems. There is a package wine for Trusty and this should install the package wine1.7 Check it with this link. As having tested this on my machine it works. The package wine forces the installation of wine1.7. I'm afraid you just forgot to run the command sudo apt-get update. Obviously you did it in the meantime (according to your updated question).
The package wine is "only" a meta-package. You could also install wine with the command
```
sudo apt-get install wine1.7
```

edited Nov 13 '15 at 09:29

cl-netbox

31,163
7
94
131

answered Nov 13 '15 at 08:06

A.B.

90,397

I got this – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 14:45
1

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386; sudo apt-get update to add the support for 32-bit architecture. After that, restart the installation of wine. – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 14:52
My system is 64 bit I think, I did run the command, here is what I got. – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 14:59
The next one sudo apt-cache policy wine1.7-i386 – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 15:00
Sorry, no. Updated my last comment, my thumb was to fast :) – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 15:02
1

And the 32-bit thing, read this ;) http://askubuntu.com/a/697303/367165 – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 15:04
http://paste.ubuntu.com/13247836/ – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 15:04
The next one sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386 – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 15:06
Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 15:06

dschinn1001 · Answer 3 · 2015-11-15T17:52:30.870

0

This would repair the necessary links too.

> sudo apt-get install wine --fix-missing

edited Nov 15 '15 at 17:52

answered Nov 13 '15 at 13:12

dschinn1001

3,829

the second command gave me a somewhat different log – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 13:17
What do these commands do anyway? I just got a log I posted in the question – Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi Nov 13 '15 at 13:52
Have a look http://paste.ubuntu.com/13247504/ – A.B. Nov 13 '15 at 13:58
dschinn1001: We appreciate you trying to be helpful, but please do not post questions as answers, even if they are related to the question at hand. Leave a comment or ask a new question. – Nov 13 '15 at 16:48

Cannot install Wine (held broken packages)

3 Answers3