Everything was totally error free until I did this.

[harrellsm]

I read the instructions and I even started with a new Ubuntu 22.04 lts install. Everything was totally error free until
I did this. Should I install wine-stable first? Because I read this
"Before you install Wine, make sure that there is no previous Wine installation on your system,
either from a package or from source." But as you can see from below
"winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 9.0.0.0~jammy-1)" TIA, I'm new to Linux so I don't want to start
issuing terminal commands willy-nilly if I don't have to.

Sean

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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 (= 9.0.0.0~jammy-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[jkfloris]

Wine from WineHQ has four packages. Often the 32-bit package gives problems.
Is it possible to install the wine-stable-i386 package?

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sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable-i386:i386

If so, try installing winehq-stable again

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

If not, what is the output?

[IMYdev]

Wine from WineHQ has four packages. Often the 32-bit package gives problems.
Is it possible to install the wine-stable-i386 package?

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sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable-i386:i386

If so, try installing winehq-stable again

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

If not, what is the output?

I had the same exact issue

and I tried this:

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sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable-i386:i386

but this is the output:

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imydev@imydev-machine:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends wine-stable-i386:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
 apt : Depends: libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 2.4.11) but it is not going to be installed
 gnome-user-docs : Depends: ubuntu-docs but it is not going to be installed or
                            zorin-os-docs but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: yelp but it is not going to be installed
 init : PreDepends: systemd-sysv
 shim-signed : Depends: grub-efi-amd64-signed (>= 1.187.2~) but it is not going to be installed or
                        grub-efi-arm64-signed (>= 1.187.2~) but it is not installable
               Depends: grub2-common (>= 2.04-1ubuntu24)
 util-linux : PreDepends: libudev1 (>= 183) but it is not installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

[KenSharp]

Purge all the wine* packages and reinstall. There's probably something left over from a distro package. Don't worry: it won't affect your WINEPREFIXES.