Unmet Dependencies

Questions about Wine on Linux
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Andres22110
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Unmet Dependencies

Post by Andres22110 »

New Linux user and first time installing wine and am getting this error, what exactly do I do to fix it?

andy@debian:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-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:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.3~buster)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Thank you.
invisible kid
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Re: Unmet Dependencies

Post by invisible kid »

Could it be that you have to do a:
sudo apt-get install wine-stable
But that message about broken packages is a little concerning
Sorry, I'm not 100% familiar with debian
Good luck!
spoon0042
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Re: Unmet Dependencies

Post by spoon0042 »

Andres22110 wrote: Sun Dec 13, 2020 2:11 am New Linux user and first time installing wine and am getting this error, what exactly do I do to fix it?

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.3~buster)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Are you following the directions here? https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
On 'buster' you will need to install libfaudio0 packages if you haven't already. After that see here, in short try 'sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable' and see what is preventing that from being installed, and repeat as necessary.
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