Unable to install wine

**fackamato** · April 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by techsupport

What is this in the source.list

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Apr 26 21:16 scottritchie-build-tests-precise.list

Can PPA purge that and roll your Ubuntu back?

D'oh. I forgot about PPA purging. I'm trying that now, thanks.

edit: So I purged that PPA, and the Ubuntu Wine PPA. Still the same. Fekk, I think I just might reinstall from scratch. This is looking like RPM dependency hell. I suppose having PPA's enabled and upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04 isn't that.. good.

**mikodo** · April 27th, 2012

When you purged Wine, you left packages without thier needed dependencies on your system. It seems, you need to correct this situation, of broken package dependencies.

Consider, removing the unmet dependency packages first, with your favorite package manager, before installing another version of Wine. Then, with the new install, the packages with thier dependencies, should be installed.

See here, from your earlier posting:

Code:

fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ sudo apt-get purge wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package wine is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ 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 0 not upgraded. fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ sudo apt-get install wine 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. fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$   fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ apt-cache policy wine wine:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse   Version table:      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scottritchi...-tests/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages      1.4-0ubuntu4 0         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ apt-cache policy wine1.5 wine1.5:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse   Version table:      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scottritchi...-tests/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$  fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.5-i386 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-i386:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed or                               libgl1:i386                      Depends: libglu1-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed or                               libglu1:i386                      Recommends: gettext:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. fackamato@fackamato-fat:~$ sudo apt-cache policy wine1.5-i386 wine1.5-i386:i386:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse   Version table:      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages      1.5.2-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 0         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scottritchi...-tests/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

**timtoo** · May 10th, 2012

Having the same problem on amd64 (kubuntu), I uninstalled lots of stuff that had seemed to have dependency problems, such as googleearth and picasa. Then the problem became:

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.5-i386:i386 : Depends: libgphoto2-2:i386 (>= 2.4.10.1) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: libgphoto2-port0:i386 (>= 2.4.10.1) but it is not going to be installed

So I did an "apt-get install libgphoto2-port0:i386" to force that to install, and apt then went and removed a bunch of stuff that was depending on "libgphoto2-port0" (primarily digikam, but also a few other things).

After doing that I reinstalled all the stuff that had been uninstalled. And everything seems to be working again. Including wine.

Anyone else reading this may not have the exact same problem, but it's likely a :386 package dependency hidden somewhere refusing to upgrade/install you need to track down.