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I have been reading countless questions regarding issues about Wine on 14.04, and despite all that, I still can't install/compile it on my machine. While you do have a lot of duplicate questions about this, I was unable to find an answer among them. Unless you're certain I missed the key answer, please don't marked this as a duplicate just yet.

I used to have a working Wine install back on 12.04, but after the upgrade, the package couldn't be reinstalled for some unknown reason. I am now running Ubuntu 14.04 on a 64bit machine.

First, the problem is described as a dependency one, even though these dependencies don't seem to be resolvable through usual channels.

$ sudo apt-get install wine
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: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or
                wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed

Now, here are the things I tried after reading some questions about it.

I also came across this question in which the OP encounters a similar problem, with a lot of unresolved dependencies he forces an i386 install through the wine1.7-i386 package. Now, since I've added the i386 architecture, I would expect these dependencies to be installed... Besides, I cannot really install these missing dependencies individually, since there's an entire dependency tree to be installed along with some of them...

I've been trying for some time now, but nothing seems to solve it. No matter what I try, wine won't install, and I can't find more information about the issue. Is there something I missed?

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  • Try sudo apt-get install wine wine1.6 (or 1.7 of course) Jan 7, 2015 at 15:52
  • @DavidJones Same dependency issue. Jan 7, 2015 at 15:54
  • sudo apt-get -f install wine wine1.6? Jan 7, 2015 at 16:00
  • @DavidJones Same, holding broken packages on the way. Jan 7, 2015 at 16:04
  • Did you ever get this solved? I get the same issue. Searched google and tried some things including some you listed, but nothing helps. Pretty mystifying issue. Mar 9, 2015 at 0:03

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