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Can not install 'wine' (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)

Asked by Light Angel

1.) I clicked the link on wine hq's website and it comes up with a dialog box,
2.) After clicking yes on the dialog box that appears on screen, it displays an error message. The one in the summary box is the error message.
3.) I keep trying to install wine but it will only display the message "Can not install 'wine' (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 22 04:54:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.11+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #390581.

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Light Angel (lightangelforever) said : 		#1
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#3

Hi,

You should try running "sudo apt-get install -f" to correct the problem.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

can you please provide the output of:

sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get -f install; sudo apt-get update

Thanks

You can also try the wine repo:

http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

The wine on the default repo is slightly older and the wine repo one can produce better results with some apps (but worse with others no doubt) but I personally advise the wine repo wine.

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