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In the Ubuntu Software Center, I attempted to download the application Wine. However, it reported that there is not a program called wine in my current software sources. I also tried to download it in terminal, and it read:

Reading package lists... Done
Building Dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wine is not available, but referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.

I followed the instructions from the website https://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu for both the command line and ppa repository. Is there another way to get this application?

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  • What Ubuntu release do you use? What messages do you get when running winehq.org instructions?
    – xangua
    Aug 18, 2015 at 18:40

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I followed the instructions from the website https://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu

The team behind the PPA ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa has changed the package names in the year 2010 or 2011.

Therefore install Wine 1.7 with

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

More about the installation of Wine here.

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Open Ubuntu Software Center, In the menu bar click edit, and then click software sources. This will open a new window named as software and updates, click on the other software tab. Check canonical partners repositories and independent repositories too. Now, open the command line and check for updates and install wine...

sudo apt-get updates && sudo apt-get upgrade

Once you are done with this, install wine using this command.

sudo apt-get install wine

This might help you.

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