Cannot install Wine

north.mark · 09-26-2015, 01:16 PM

Hi,

I can't install Wine on Linux Mint live cd session from pendrive. Software manager shows that I need to use apt-get. But it doesn't work. I can easily install other software on live cd session. How to install it?

Quote:

mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install wine
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 : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install wine1.6
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:
wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install wine1.6
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:
wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mint@mint ~ $ sudo apt-get install wine1.6-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:
wine1.6-amd64 : Depends: wine1.6:any (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mint@mint ~ $

Thanks in advance!

Rinndalir · 09-26-2015, 01:25 PM

Are you installing it to the pendrive? Maybe the pendrive is read-only.

north.mark · 09-26-2015, 01:29 PM

I'm installing it only in Random Access Memory. The pendrive is mounted as read-only for any live cd session (if I'm not mistaken) but it doesn't matter, sudo apt-get works very well on live cd sessions for any other software. It just installs it only to RAM so that every restart removes any software installed. But I want to install Wine on my current session and cannot because of the above problems.

I need to run simple exe program from cd and unfortunately cannot install any operating system because my hard disk has bad sectors and Linux Mint installer crashes (if only I knew how to manually create all the partitions needed by Linux Mint installer with marking bad sectors as bad sectors and then start GUI Linux Mint installation with using just created file system, preferably with disk encryption).

TobiSGD · 09-26-2015, 02:05 PM

Have you updated the package database with

Code:

apt-get update

before trying to install Wine?