Cannot install winehq on Ubuntu 20.04: unmet dependencies

[ahangarha]

I am using Kubuntu 20.04. I have added winehq PPA as per instruction on the website. But I cannot install it due to the following error:

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  ~ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
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-staging : Depends: wine-staging (= 5.9~focal)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I cannot install wine-staging also as it depends on wine-staging-i386 (= 5.9~focal) which doesn't exist.

It is same if I want to install stable release from ppa.

[dimesio]

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#How_do_I_so ... ll_Wine.3F

[ahangarha]

Doesn't help. See:

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➜  ~ sudo apt install winehq-staging 
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-staging : Depends: wine-staging (= 5.9~focal)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
➜  ~ sudo apt install wine-staging     
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-staging : Depends: wine-staging-i386 (= 5.9~focal)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
➜  ~ sudo apt install wine-staging=i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Version 'i386' for 'wine-staging' was not found
➜  ~ 

[jkfloris]

wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-i386
...
sudo apt install wine-staging=i386

What error message do you get without the typo?

[dimesio]

The last error message said

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wine-staging-i386  

but you tried to install

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wine-staging=i386

See the difference?

[ahangarha]

I don't now how I made such mistake!

This is the error:

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➜  ~ sudo apt install wine-staging-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:
 wine-staging-i386:i386 : Depends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So I tried

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sudo apt install libasound2-plugins:i386

which installed the dependency. Then, I tried

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sudo apt install winehq-staging

and it is installed now

Sorry for my stupid mistake! I don't make such mistakes usually.