Wine - stable "Not Available"

[TGPB]

Went into Software Manager to load Wine and it says it is not available.
So I just went to their site and followed their instructions and get this.

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xxxxx@xxxxxxx:~$ sudo apt-get install winehq-stable
[sudo] password for xxxxxx:           
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 (= 5.0.0~bionic)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[TGPB]

I found the Wine - stable AMD64 version in the Software Manager and tried to install it.

Package dependencies cannot be resolved

This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:

wine-stable-amd64: Depends: libfaudio0 but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0) but 1:8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 is to be installed
                   Depends: libudev1 (>= 183) but 237-3ubuntu10.39 is to be installed
                   Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) but 1:1.2.11.dfsg-0ubuntu2 is to be installed

[Flemur]

Went into Software Manager to load Wine and it says it is not available.

I assume you're using Mint 19.x, so undo everything you did and install "wine-installer", as per the Mint 19.x release notes.

[TGPB]

I performed a timestamp to go back and tried again

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xxxxx@xxxxxx:~$ apt install --install-recommends wine-installer
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-installer : Depends: winehq-stable but it is not going to be installed or
                           winehq-devel but it is not going to be installed or
                           winehq-staging but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[trytip]

remove winehq ppa purge your wine installation (in synaptic search for wine and delete all wine) then apt update
and last install wine from mint apt install wine-installer
if you want winehq you will need to learn how to install wine 5.0 and the ppa that offers libfaudio0

[Flemur]

I performed a timestamp to go back and tried again

That may or may not undo what you did; do what trytip said, which is what I said, which is undo what you did (remove repos and all wine packages)
Run

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inxi -r 

if you see any wine entries, you have not removed them. Use Software Sources or synaptic remove.

Wine has been a PITA recently and the instructions all over the web, mostly copied frmo winehq, are, I think, broken.

Also, you do end up with a winehq-stable package, version4.x.

Edit: run this after you remove repos and before you install wine-installer

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sudo apt update

[trytip]

on a side note is very sad if you use oibaf ppa for amd graphics they are removing 32bit packages. i had complications trying to install wine 5.0 because the graphic driver updates conflict and cause broken packages.
today i did an update from the same oibaf ppa and it wanted to remove my steam:i386, so now i will have to wait see if this gets fixed
looks like slowly linux is going away from 32bit but packages like steam and wine are still holding on to 32bit

[Flemur]

on a side not is very sad if you use oibaf ppa for amd graphics they are removing 32bit packages. i had complications trying to install wine 5.0 because the graphic driver updates conflict and cause broken packages.
today i did an update from the same oibaf ppa and it wanted to remove my steam:i386, so now i will have to wait see if this gets fixed
looks like slowly linux is going away from 32bit but packages like steam and wine are still holding on to 32bit

I installed wine 5.0 installed in Ubuntu 18.04 and had to add libfaudio (IIRC) by hand. Then I installed 'wine-installer' on a clean Mint 19.3 and that over-wrote 5.0 because I have

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$ ls -l /opt/wine*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb  8 09:07 /opt/wine-stable -> /mnt/DATA/Installs/wine-stable

for both Ubuntu and Mint - so they install wine to the same place.

[AZgl1800]

I was just going to install Wine-stable and started looking here and found this thread.
looks like it too much of a PITA to mess with.

[Flemur]

I was just going to install Wine-stable and started looking here and found this thread.
looks like it too much of a PITA to mess with.

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sudo apt install wine-installer 

is too complicated?

[AZgl1800]

I was just going to install Wine-stable and started looking here and found this thread.
looks like it too much of a PITA to mess with.

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sudo apt install wine-installer 

is too complicated?

that didn't go so well

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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:
 wine-installer : Depends: winehq-stable but it is not going to be installed or
                           winehq-devel but it is not installable or
                           winehq-staging but it is not installable
                  Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[trytip]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine-installer : Depends: winehq-stable but it is not going to be installed or
winehq-devel but it is not installable or
winehq-staging but it is not installable
Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

you still have winehq ppa enabled if it's asking for it

[AZgl1800]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine-installer : Depends: winehq-stable but it is not going to be installed or
winehq-devel but it is not installable or
winehq-staging but it is not installable
Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

you still have winehq ppa enabled if it's asking for it

I have never tried to install Wine before I ran that script this evening.

[pbear]

I performed a timestamp to go back and tried again

Do you mean that you restored a Timeshift snapshot or something else?

FWIW, I just installed Wine in a fully-updated Mate 19.3 VM using wine-installer and it went through without a hitch.
OTOH, and this may be significant, it's a bare VM with only the default apps installed.
OTTH, I have Wine 4.0 installed (by the same method) on my main system, Mate 19.1, and that one also has no problems.

[Flemur]

I have never tried to install Wine before I ran that script this evening.

You added the wine repo. Remove it to install wine the easy way.

[Flemur]

FWIW, I just installed Wine in a fully-updated Mate 19.3 VM using wine-installer and it went through without a hitch.

To install wine on Mint 19.3 Xfce (clean install) alI did was install "wine installer". No problems and no wine repos.

It'd be nice if winehq.org would get their act together.

[AZgl1800]

I just decided to hell with Wine,

I don't need it, was just going to try something out for a friend and help him install a Proprietary Win app on his wife's PC.

he can sink or swim, I'm thru with Wine.

[trytip]

I just decided to hell with Wine,

I don't need it, was just going to try something out for a friend and help him install a Proprietary Win app on his wife's PC.

he can sink or swim, I'm thru with Wine.

no my friend hell doesn't want wine either i too am so ooomphed with wine since i have to pick and choose which applications and games i want to run and then go hunting for winetricks dlls

open Software Sources from the menu > PPAs and it should be at the bottom you can highlight winehq and then click remove

close everything and i like to run apt update in terminal to see if there are any errors after removing ppa rather than using sources to update

[trytip]

i'm guessing i was wrong about linux losing all i386 packages but how can they miss not upgrading i386 dependencies? i was correct in not rushing into upgrading libllvm10 this ppa is good on correcting their failures but it is annoying that i could just as easily have broken my system trying to force or remove what is conflicting

phew, for a minute there i thought we were in trouble

yesterday they issued an upgrade but they did not include the i386 equivalent. you'll notice wine-installer is included. i know it is just a meta package


today they decided to fix

[AZgl1800]

I just decided to hell with Wine,

I don't need it, was just going to try something out for a friend and help him install a Proprietary Win app on his wife's PC.

he can sink or swim, I'm thru with Wine.

no my friend hell doesn't want wine either i too am so ooomphed with wine since i have to pick and choose which applications and games i want to run and then go hunting for winetricks dlls

open Software Sources from the menu > PPAs and it should be at the bottom you can highlight winehq and then click remove

close everything and i like to run apt update in terminal to see if there are any errors after removing ppa rather than using sources to update

apparently the install effort did not even get started, looking at Sources > PPA 'Wine' in any form Wine does not show up... so my laptop is clean of Wine.

the only PPA that showed up are apps that I installed for me.