Trouble installing wine

[rodmur]

So my problem sounds the same has been posted before, but the issue is not resolved.

I have a system where I have tried to install wine32 and the newer wine5 version, It can't resolve dependencies, like so:

# apt install --install-recommends wine-stable
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-stable : Depends: wine-stable-i386 (= 5.0.0~buster)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

If I try to follow this down the chain of all the dependencies the aren't installing and attempt to install that individually, I get to a point where the system will try to uninstall a bunch of packages, most notably apt, which is kind of annoying. So does anyone have any suggestions how I fix this? The maddening thing is I have another system, almost identical, that all this installed fine on! So I'm a little bit at wit's end presently.

[Barrowman]

Apart from anything else you need to fix the held broken packages problem. Until then I suspect this will affect quite a lot.

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sudo apt-get -f install

Works on Mint and probably other Debian based system. Sorry but I have no idea what you would use on rpm systems

[jkfloris]

I get to a point where the system will try to uninstall a bunch of packages

Which package are you trying to install at this step?