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Even though I think that any such libraries should come as dependencies when I install wine via apt-get. I still tried to install them but realized that I had all of those already and didn't make a change. (e.g. libraries suggested herehere or herehere)

Even though I think that any such libraries should come as dependencies when I install wine via apt-get. I still tried to install them but realized that I had all of those already and didn't make a change. (e.g. libraries suggested here or here)

Even though I think that any such libraries should come as dependencies when I install wine via apt-get. I still tried to install them but realized that I had all of those already and didn't make a change. (e.g. libraries suggested here or here)

update1, tried to incorporate what Gert Otten suggested
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Update 1

I have tried to remove any wine related package by running apt-get remove and autoremove on everything I could find that had to do with wine. Checking dpkg for any wine related packages now gave me:

linn@Asus:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -e wine
libkwineffects6                 deinstall
libwine-development:amd64           deinstall
libwine-development:i386            deinstall
wine1.6                     deinstall
wine1.6-amd64                   deinstall
wine1.6-i386:i386               deinstall
wine1.8                     deinstall
wine1.8-amd64                   deinstall
wine1.8-i386:i386               deinstall

Then I tried what Gert Otten suggested in his answer and ran (i tried to install just plain "wine" instead of "wine-bin" because the package "wine-bin" doesn't seem to exist for Ubuntu 15.10):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Unfortunately it results in the same issues.

Update 1

I have tried to remove any wine related package by running apt-get remove and autoremove on everything I could find that had to do with wine. Checking dpkg for any wine related packages now gave me:

linn@Asus:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -e wine
libkwineffects6                 deinstall
libwine-development:amd64           deinstall
libwine-development:i386            deinstall
wine1.6                     deinstall
wine1.6-amd64                   deinstall
wine1.6-i386:i386               deinstall
wine1.8                     deinstall
wine1.8-amd64                   deinstall
wine1.8-i386:i386               deinstall

Then I tried what Gert Otten suggested in his answer and ran (i tried to install just plain "wine" instead of "wine-bin" because the package "wine-bin" doesn't seem to exist for Ubuntu 15.10):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Unfortunately it results in the same issues.

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15.10 - unable to run 32bit wine

I have been trying to install wine on my 64bit Ubuntu 15.10 today and ran into some problems. I installed simply by running

sudo apt-get install wine

Now the issue is that I can't run the wine binary, the error being the following:

linn@Asus:/$ wine
bash: /usr/bin/wine: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

While the 64 bit binary seems to be working just fine:

linn@Asus:/$ wine64
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit

Now of course I started to digg around a little and it seems that the "wine" binary is indeed a 32 bit binary and I apparently need a couple of extra libraries in order to run those.

linn@Asus:/$ file /usr/bin/wine
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=ca94516ed13ede12998b464b0a5ef9f5ebebfb67, stripped

Even though I think that any such libraries should come as dependencies when I install wine via apt-get. I still tried to install them but realized that I had all of those already and didn't make a change. (e.g. libraries suggested here or here)

I quite frankly don't know what to try anymore and it doesn't seem like any overly frequent issue, judging by the little amount of similar problems I could find on the web.

One other peculiar issue that might point towards something is that this is a laptop running on Swedish language packages. When I try to run winecfg, the following happens:

linn@Asus:/$ winecfg
/usr/bin/wine: 1: /usr/bin/wine: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Could there be any messed up paths due to some language issues?

The wine version is the following:

linn@Asus:/$ wine64 --version
wine-1.6.2

But the same issue appeared when trying the 1.7 and 1.8 versions from the official wine PPA.

Thanks for in advance for any help and effort.