Wine installation not completing due to held broken packages

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and I want to install wine. This is the output of sudo apt-get install wine:

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 : Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I spend 4 hours and I have not made any progress. I don't get it. Here is how the dependencies looks like:

wine -> wine1.4
wine1.4 -> wine1.4-amd64
wine1.4-amd64 -> wine1.4-common
wine1.4-common -> wine1.4

I see a problem here.

Please help me.

Answer 1

Type in terminal

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get  remove wine
sudo dpkg -p Wine
sudo apt-get install wine.

The first command will remove broken packages.second will remove wine. third will remove configuration files. so wine will be totally out from your system. and forth one will be install wine again on your system.

Answer 2

found the solution. Install "synaptic" from your software repository, and then use it to delete all your wine packages. Just search in synaptic for "wine", and then remove all of them. Then you should be able to install wine again.

Answer 3

I don't know if you still has this issue, but I had a similar issue, and the first answer here helped: Can't install wine (or ia32-libs) in Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit

Briefly what you should do:

sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences

and insert the following lines:

Package: *       
Pin: release a=quantal*
Pin-Priority: 2012

enter ctrl+O to write the file. Pin-Priority must be greater than 1000.

Then you may downgrade the offending applications with:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I remark, that I had wine installed correctly, but unfortunately I installed Intel's driver update, and after that did I have this dependency issue. Hope this will work!