"Please note that Lubuntu 12.04 is not an LTS (5 years support), but a 'standard' release, supported for 18 months. This is simply due the fact there is insufficient 'man-power' to commit to 5 years of support."
Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
There is a possibility of LTS for Lubuntu 14.04: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2013-April/003941.html
Next steps are 13.10, and 14.04 which should be a LTS version for
Ubuntu. Last LTS (12.04), I considered that we were not ready for such
commitment. I was also unsure of the work needed to make a good LTS.
With more experience, I have now a better vision of this goal.
So, let's make it simple, I would like Lubuntu 14.04 to be a LTS
version.
But claiming we want a LTS its' not enough. First, we need to make it
stable enough, so we can safely claim it's a LTS, because people who
install a LTS want a stable system. But, I also would like to make it
sexy enough to be proud of it, to make people happy to recommend it. I
would like to make it THE release of Lubuntu, the reference of all
Lubuntu releases. To achieve it, I have several goals in mind, items
that I consider we need to finish for the LTS, and I think we can
finish them ...
Read more about Lubuntu's future here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/14.04
Analysis
The WineHQ repository misses the dependencies for wine-stable
package.
I have reported a bug 48513 to WineHQ bugzilla.
The main problem here is bad documentation, which is written in non-reproducible way.
The Rosanne DiMesio's main idea is "People who don't bother to read the directions are always going to have problems.".
So we need to write our own documentation until WineHQ-officials become smarter.
The problem with dependencies was caused by the FAudio dependency, which is not contained in Debian/Ubuntu and WineHQ repositories. We can determine the exact package name by using command below and analyzing of their output:
$ sudo apt-get install wine-stable-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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-stable-amd64 : Depends: libfaudio0 but it is not installable
Recommends: libcapi20-3 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libodbc1 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libosmesa6 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libsdl2-2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
The aforementioned libfaudio0
package is available only for Ubuntu 19.10 and upcoming 20.04 LTS.
Solution
We need to follow official WineHQ guide for Ubuntu partially:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
Note: if you have WineHQ repository added - remove it with
sudo apt-add-repository -r 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
to prevent the mess of repositories and then proceed.
Then we need to add other repository from OpenSuse Build Service to get libfaudio0
installed:
wget -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key -O Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./'
sudo apt-get update
and only after this install one of WineHQ packages:
# Stable branch
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
#Development branch
#sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel
#Staging branch
#sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
Best Answer
No.
Source
Note: Lubuntu 12.04 is not LTS, but it's based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. So it's very stable, the same way as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'd like to recommend to you to upgrade your system to Lubuntu 12.10.
You can check the differences of Lubuntu 12.10 to Lubuntu 12.04 at this link.