hello,
I'm fairly new to Linux and I'm currently running mint 20.1 on an old laptop I decided to clean up as a side project.
I tried installing wine as per the instructions in the download page, but no matter what I've tried, I cant get it to install. it keeps bringing up 'dependencies'. i tried searching all over for answers, but i cant find anything helpful.
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 (= 6.5~groovy-1)
Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 6.5~groovy-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
wine dependencies?
Re: wine dependencies?
@crow671
It can be helpful to use aptitude, as this tends to be more verbose about issues.
Try:
If you want to install the /usr/bin/ Wine compatibility links then use:
This issue is typically caused by an installed 3rd party repository that causes a mismatch between the i386 amd64 Wine packages (which are required to have matching versions, by Debian packaging rules).
Bob
It can be helpful to use aptitude, as this tends to be more verbose about issues.
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sudo apt install aptitude
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sudo aptitude install --verbose --with-recommends wine-staging
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sudo aptitude install --verbose --with-recommends winehq-staging
Bob
Re: wine dependencies?
i installed aptitude with the commands you gave, but the end result didnt change when i tried to re-run the wine installation
Re: wine dependencies?
Can you please post the full terminal output from the aptitude command.
Please, when you are posting terminal commands and output to, use the forum Code tags ( </> button - above the full forum edit box ) to delimit these:
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sudo aptitude install --verbose --with-recommends wine-staging
...
It would also be helpful to get the output from:
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grep -R '^deb' /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*.list}
Bob