im trying to install wine so i can play fortnight but when i do sudo apt-get install –install-recommends wine-staging i get an error that says wine-staging: depends: wine-staging-amd64 (=2.21.0~trusty) but is not going to be installed depends: wine-staging-i386 (=2.21.0~trusty) E: unable to correct problems
Ubuntu – How to install wine on ubuntu 17.10
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Wine Windows Programmloader is wine itself.
I suggest you to use PlayonLinux its a great GUI for managing the installation of programms using wine and comes with many scripts for programminstalls. It will either download a preferred wine version for each programm (if there is an installscript given for that one).
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Can't install wine (or ia32-libs) in Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit
Using /etc/apt/preferences to assign Pin-Priority would solve the dependencies problems while installing wine-i386. However, in some of my machines it would remove almost all kde packages and I need to re-install them back after installing i386 packages.
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These commands worked for me on a clean 17.10 install.
Based on your error, did you perhaps forget to do the
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386?sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key && sudo apt-key add Release.keysudo apt update && sudo apt install winehq-stableSee this article for details.