Wine: The following packages have unmet dependencies

[mrc1503]

Hello,
I am very new to ubuntu and Linux in general... I am an IT student and have only taken an introductory class on UNIX/Linux, but I really liked it so I decided to install it as my OS. The problem is that I need to install wine (for using MS programs for school) and have run into problems doing installing via the terminal, I receive the following message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine1.5 : Depends: wine1.5-i386 (= 1.5.18-0ubuntu1) 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-droid
Recommends: ttf-umefont but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: winbind but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt

[verzx]

Use the Update Manager and use the command below.

sudo apt-get install update

[Tumshukuru H. Mhalila]

first use the command below to update

sudo apt-get install update

then write:

sudo apt-get install PlayOnLinux

the command above is the best for MS program it will be installed with wine Enjoy!!

[philinux]

Moved to Wine forum.

The command above is wrong. It should be.

sudo apt-get update

[mrc1503]

These are the commands, in order, that I used in the command line terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5


That's when I received the unmet dependencies error... I tried installing PlayOnLinux as suggested, this is the message I got: E: Unable to locate package PlayOnLinux. A little frustrating but I am enjoying the learning experience. I'll keep hammering away at it, but any more suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt

[snowpine]

Welcome to the forums!

Why don't you use the stable, trusted, and tested Wine 1.4 from the Ubuntu repositories? It can be installed with 1 mouse click in the Ubuntu Software Center and is guaranteed not to have unmet dependencies.

[mrc1503]

I tried that and the software center gave me the following message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:

wine1.4: PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) but 1.16.7ubuntu6 is to be installed
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but 2.15-0ubuntu20 is to be installed
Depends: wine1.4-amd64 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu1) but 1.4.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
I'm sure I'm missing something really simple that would not be missed by a more experienced user.