Unable to install wine E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. fresh install, wine stable

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xoity
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Unable to install wine E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. fresh install, wine stable

Post by xoity »

getting this error after following every step of trying to install wine-stable on a debian based os (using parrot os), its a fresh install too so how can i fix this?

┌─[✗]─[xoity@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $sudo apt install libavresample4: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:
libavutil56:i386 : Depends: libva-drm2:i386 (>= 1.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libva-x11-2:i386 (>= 1.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libva2:i386 (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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Re: Unable to install wine E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. fresh install, wine stable

Post by jkfloris »

Which repositories do you have enabled?

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apt policy
Check if the packages with unmet dependencies have the same version number for amd64 and i386

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apt policy libva-drm2:{i386,amd64}
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