Help with installing wine..Error Windbind not installable

Reckless89 · Post by **Reckless89** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:45 pm

I am trying to download and install Wine on XUbuntu but get the following error.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: winbind but it is not installable

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reckless89 · Post by **Reckless89** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:53 pm

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:45 pm

Reckless89 wrote:Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: winbind but it is not installable

Can't you read? These are issues with the package you trying to install. Get the one for your distro version. Or compile Wine from source.

Reckless89 · Post by **Reckless89** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:08 pm

Im new to linux and dont know what you are talking about. The package I was trying to install is for my distro. Also, I downloaded the source but do not know what to do with it.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:24 pm

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Reckless89 <[email protected]> wrote:

Im new to linux and dont know what you are talking about. The package I was trying to install is for my distro. Also, I downloaded the source but do not know what to do with it.

You're distro screwed something up somewhere, as it's depending on
binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2), but doesn't have it available. It might be
in another (unenabled) repository, e.g., on Ubuntu in multiverse.

As for source, you'd have to compile it...best avoided unless you know
what you're doing, as it's a bit messy for the faint of heart.

--
-Austin

Reckless89 · Post by **Reckless89** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:46 pm

So what should I do to install wine?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:51 pm

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Reckless89 <[email protected]> wrote:

So what should I do to install wine?

Ask your distro, but you need to either get binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2)
from somewhere, or get wine from somewhere else that doesn't have that
dependency.

--
-Austin

JoeG6831 · Post by **JoeG6831** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:11 am

Reckless89 wrote:I am trying to download and install Wine on XUbuntu but get the following error.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: winbind but it is not installable

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Reckless. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you're using the 8.10 release. I had the same issues, and I'm using Kubuntu. What I did was:

- Followed the instructions found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/World ... Installing Wine

- Fired up Adept (the package manager) and used it to fetch updates

What's really critical here is that you make sure that after you add any new repositories for software, ensure that you do update your package list ... you're probably using Synaptic, so you can just reload at the main screen there, as I recall.

Hope that helps. You can PM me if I can help further.