So, after setting up my installation of Xubuntu yesterday, I tried to install Wine 1.7 using ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa. However, after doing sudo apt-get install wine1.7, it keeps giving me this error:
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:
wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-amd64 (= 1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I've tried several solutions that I've found online, such as autoremoving, adding the i386 architecture, cleaning up my packages, and fixing my apt-get installs. However, after trying all of the solutions that I could find, wine1.7 is still not installing. I'm not sure if this is my computer's fault or the ppa's fault, but if others could share their finds that would be great.
Thanks, Elly
As requested, here's the output for apt-cache policy wine1.7 wine1.7-amd64 wine1.7-i386:
wine1.7:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1
Version table:
1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
wine1.7-amd64:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1
Version table:
1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
wine1.7-i386:i386:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1
Version table:
1:1.7.44-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ wily/main i386 Packages
and the output for sudo apt-get install wine1.7-amd64 wine1.7-i386:
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:
wine1.7-amd64 : Depends: libgphoto2-port10 (>= 2.5.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: libgnutls26 but it is not installable
Recommends: wine-gecko2.34 but it is not installable
Recommends: wine-mono4.5.4 but it is not installable
wine1.7-i386:i386 : Depends: libgphoto2-port10:i386 (>= 2.5.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: libgnutls26:i386 but it is not installable
Recommends: libpcap0.8:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: wine-gecko2.34:i386 but it is not installable
Recommends: wine-mono4.5.4:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Best Answer
The needed packages are currently not available for Wily. Check this filtered page.
Wait some days and the Wily packages are likely to be available. In the meantime, install the Vivid packages: