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I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I tried installing wine and the following command does not work and I guess it stops the other required commands from working too.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

It says the option "--add-architecture" is not valid.

"dpkg: error: unknown option --add-architecture"

The other commands being:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine

The last command ends with an error saying the required dependencies are not met and couldn't be fixed either. Please help.

Thanks !

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Well in this case I recommend you to run the following to manually add the 32 bit support assuming you are using 64 bit ubuntu.

Become privileged user

sudo su

Add 32 bit support

echo "foreign-architecture i386" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch

Install 32 bit dependency packages you need to install libc , since its ubuntu 12.04 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

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