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I was trying to install Wine. It used to work, but I get this message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.55-0ubuntu1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

How do I get rid of broken packages?

muru
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You can run a check using apt, from the man page;

check

       check is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache and checks
       for broken dependencies.

Simply run;

$ sudo apt-get check

You can also try to run your apt-get command with the '-f' option (again from the man page);

-f, --fix-broken

       Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place.
       This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages
       to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. If packages are
       specified, these have to completely correct the problem. The option
       is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT
       itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a
       system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be
       so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually means
       using dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages).
       Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in some
       situations. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken.

Your command would simply be;

$ sudo apt-get -f install win1.7
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