winehq-stable gives error on installation

[asamolion]

Hi all,

I've been trying to install wine through the official docs given here https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
(this adds an additional repository to the system)

However when I run

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

It gives me this error

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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:
 winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 3.0.1~xenial)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'm running Linux Mint 18.3 64 bit on a Dell Inspirton 13 5378, kernel version 4.13.0-45-generic. Can anyone please point me on how to install wine on my machine?

[richyrich]

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Open and login to Synaptic Package Manager, and from the menubar choose "Fix broken packages" . . please report any error messages.