I am on Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon.
Somehow, my wine installation has stopped working, and I cannot get it going again.
I think it happened when I ran this, to get the source to compile a music notation program:
Code:
sudo apt-get build-dep musescore
[sudo] password for joe:
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
<lots of packages follow>
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libasound2-plugins:i386 libjack-jackd2-0 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 wine-stable wine-stable-i386:i386
winehq-stable winetricks
The following NEW packages will be installed:
<lots of packages follow>
I have no idea why this request decide that the wine packages needed removal. Nevertheless, after this, I could not start any of my wine apps. Also, the wine folder under /opt has disappeared. The .wine folder under $HOME is still there. Note above, the wine packages were REMOVED here, for some reason I do not understand.
I originally installed from WineHQ. When I try to reinstall, I get this error:
Code:
$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
[sudo] password for joe:
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:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 3.0.4~bionic)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I also cannot install it from my Synaptic Package Manager, or from the distro Software Center either. I ran the "Fix Broken Packages", but that did not fix this problem.
If somebody has some suggestions, please chime in. If I cannot solve this, next step will be to pull in a TimeShift snapshot.