Can't install Wine on Linux Mint 20.3, the prerequisite for install is...Wine?

[junglized]

Hello everyone,

maybe someone could help me with this one, please? I updated Wine a few days ago via update manager on Linux Mint 20.3. Yesterday I noticed Wine is gone for some unexplained reason, although default prefix is left intact. I tried to install it again following instructions on Wine's website, step by step, as I did previously with success. When I execute

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sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

I get dependency error

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winehq-staging : Requires: wine-staging (= 7.11~focal-1)

So basically I can't install Wine because it requires Wine to be installed? It doesn't make any sense TBH.

All help greatly appreciated.

[spamegg]

Hello junglized
Please share your system info by entering the command inxi -Fxxxmprz into a Terminal and posting its output here.


winehq-staging and wine-staging are two different packages (notice the hq).

[pbear]

Yesterday I noticed Wine is gone for some unexplained reason, although default prefix is left intact.

Do you have a Timeshift snapshot from before Wine disappeared? Restoring that probably would be the simplest solution.

Then, pay close attention to what Update Manager offers at next update. Perhaps something conflicted with Wine.
Indeed, if you're comfortable with Terminal, upgrading there would be preferable, as you would get warnings.

[junglized]

Yesterday I noticed Wine is gone for some unexplained reason, although default prefix is left intact.

Do you have a Timeshift snapshot from before Wine disappeared? Restoring that probably would be the simplest solution.

Then, pay close attention to what Update Manager offers at next update. Perhaps something conflicted with Wine.
Indeed, if you're comfortable with Terminal, upgrading there would be preferable, as you would get warnings.

I did as you suggested and it worked but I wanted to avoid Timeshift on the first place as I made changes in some apps and now I have to go through the process again. I upgraded packages from Terminal without errors, updated Wine is working just fine as it should. I'd like to learn what the error meant though. Any ideas?

[junglized]

Hello junglized
Please share your system info by entering the command inxi -Fxxxmprz into a Terminal and posting its output here.


winehq-staging and wine-staging are two different packages (notice the hq).

Thank you for your time. I reverted to the last back-up with Timeshift and did the upgrade from Terminal instead of Update Manager. Wine is up to date and working just fine now.

I noticed the difference between packages, tried to install the one without the "hq" but i couldn't having more error thrown up, so that's why I resorted to TImeshift back-up.

[pbear]

Glad you got it sorted.

I'd like to learn what the error meant though. Any ideas?

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Wine is that it's sprawling and complex. There are many parts, it's easy for something to get out of whack, and once out of whack almost impossible to fix. In defense of the developers, getting Windows apps to run in Linux is an absurdly difficult problem. Which is to say, no, from the symptoms reported I don't have a hypothesis for what went wrong. Not sure I'd be able to do any better if it were my computer.