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.
- Add
wine
's PPA and installwine1.7
directly. Results in unresolved dependency forwine1.7-i386
. The sources list had been correctly updated, and my system was up-to-date. - Remove
wine
's user data directory and try again. No changes. - Install
wine1.7:i386
in order to get a 32-bitwine
install. Results in unresolved dependency forwine1.7-i386:i386
. - Install
ia32-libs
, nowlib32z1
,lib32ncurses5
, andlib32bz2-1.0
. These packages were already installed. Usingdpkg
's--force-architecture
switch on a .deb file didn't change a thing, same unresolved dependencies. - Add
i386
toapt-get
's architectures and installwine1.7:1386
: adding the architecture does not change a thing, even though/var/lib/dpkg/arch
does containi386
. - Install
playonlinux
instead. Same unresolved dependencies:wine1.7-i386
.
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?
sudo apt-get install wine wine1.6
(or 1.7 of course)sudo apt-get -f install wine wine1.6
?