Newbie to Linux

mpgarcia · Post by **mpgarcia** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:37 pm

Will someone please make me a believer? I have just started using Linux. I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine so that I may play certain games. While trying to install, I got the following message...

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

How do I go about fixing this?

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:44 pm

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM, mpgarcia <[email protected]> wrote:

I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine [but I got the error]:
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Where did you get your copy of Wine?
- Dan

Dotan Cohen · Post by **Dotan Cohen** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:48 pm

On 23/03/2008, mpgarcia <[email protected]> wrote:

Will someone please make me a believer? I have just started using Linux. I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine so that I may play certain games. While trying to install, I got the following message...

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

How do I go about fixing this?

This looks more of an Ubuntu issue. Sign up for the
[email protected] mailing list, and post the entire output
(including the commands that you type) of "sudo apt-get install wine"
and "cat /etc/apt/sources.list"to that list.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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Chad · Post by **Chad** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:53 pm

mpgarcia wrote:Will someone please make me a believer? I have just started using Linux. I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine so that I may play certain games. While trying to install, I got the following message...

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

How do I go about fixing this?

You may have better luck at http://ubuntuforums.org/ with these types of questions.

The following link looks to be different solutions some people have for the issue you are experiencing...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582630

Edit: The below link (bottom post) may help as well...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-674904.html

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:54 pm

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 02:37:24 pm mpgarcia wrote:

Will someone please make me a believer? I have just started using Linux.

We'll try. Thanks for meeting us halfway with a well-asked question!

I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine so that I may play certain
games. While trying to install, I got the following message...

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

How do I go about fixing this?

What was the command line you used to install that?

Sometimes, such problems can occur when the packages currently available on
the apt repository don't match what's in the package cache locally, for one
reason or another. What happens if you run this in your favorite shell...

$ sudo aptitude update

...and then attempting to install wine again?

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Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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starfox5194 · Post by **starfox5194** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:11 pm

just install it using the synaptic package manager

system > administration > Synaptic package manager

type in wine in the search

check wine off... press apply and you are good to go!

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:21 pm

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:11:36 pm starfox5194 wrote:

just install it using the synaptic package manager

system > administration > Synaptic package manager

type in wine in the search

check wine off... press apply and you are good to go!

Your advice will probably result in the same error without some other
intervention. Please read the original post: They posted installation log
output.

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Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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