Cannot install Wine (held broken packages)

Question

I 'm trying to install Wine on my Ubuntu system, but cannot complete the installation. I have read countless other Q & A but none of them seems to fix my problem. When I try to install it with

sudo apt-get install wine

I get this message:

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.

I tried with Synaptic: (wine package has an exclamation mark instead of a check)

Could not apply changes!  
Fix broken packages first.

I click to fix the packages and then this error occurs:

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

I have also tried commands like

sudo apt-get remove wine
sudo aptitude search wine
sudo dpkg -p Wine

but none of them worked as well. I 'm so confused right now that I might be missing something simple. I 'm a new Ubuntu user, so I don 't know advanced methods and terminal commands. Am I doing something wrong? I have only tried solutions and commands posted in this forum. Thanks in advance for the help!

Edit: After I ran

uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy wine wine1.6; sudo apt-get remove wine; sudo apt-get install -f I get:

Linux tommy-Lenovo-Z50-75 3.19.0-33-generic #38~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:17:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

apt-cache policy wine wine1.6

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.7.50-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:1.7.50-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
     1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
wine1.6:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
     1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

sudo apt-get remove wine

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'wine' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done

sudo apt-get install -f

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

Edit: I tried

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
$ sudo apt-get install wine

even after running sudo apt-get update. The problem remains.

Edit (last and final): After an unsuccessful attempt to determine the broken packages, I will format my laptop to Ubuntu Gnome (latest version). Current version I run 14.04 LTS with Unity. Thanks for all your help, this thread should be closed. It seems my system is missing some packages so since it is freshly installed (2 weeks ago) I will just format it again. Thanks again for all the responses!

Solution

Type the following into a terminal:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
$ sudo apt-get install wine

This should remove any held packages, and properly install Wine. Also make sure that you did not install Wine from source.

Comments

[A.B.]

Edit your question and add the output of uname -a; lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy wine wine1.6; sudo apt-get remove wine; sudo apt-get install -f

[Raven Underwood]

Have you tried sudo apt-get remove --purge wine ? That might do it. Also, trying autoremove in place of remove could work.

[A.B.]

Don't use screenshots for the output. Restart the commands again an ad the output to your question.

[David Foerster]

I agree with A.B.. You can copy and paste terminal content similar to most other GUI application.

[David Foerster]

Looking at the terminal output, it's unclear, what prevented the installation of the wine package. The underlying issue might have been resolved by some intermediary action. Can you try to run sudo apt-get install wine again and include its output in your question, please?

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

sorry to keep you waiting guys, I was away. Thanks for the fast responses. I 'm editing the question now.

[A.B.]

Sorry, I see. Perhaps you should only follow one answer.

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

Sorry guys I do not know how am I supposed to work in these situations... I don't really have an idea of what I'm doing. I have too little experience in Ubuntu.

[A.B.]

Run sudo apt-get purge wine; sudo apt-get install -f Add the output here paste.ubuntu.com and give me the link.

[A.B.]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

[Ivan]

It is worth mentioning that what blocks wine1.7 from being installed in Ubuntu 15.10 is absence of the libgphoto2 package once I have downloaded and installed it manually I could install Wine without problems.

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

the second command gave me a somewhat different log

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

What do these commands do anyway? I just got a log I posted in the question

[A.B.]

Have a look paste.ubuntu.com/13247504

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

I got this

[A.B.]

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386; sudo apt-get update to add the support for 32-bit architecture. After that, restart the installation of wine.

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

My system is 64 bit I think, I did run the command, here is what I got.

[A.B.]

The next one sudo apt-cache policy wine1.7-i386

[A.B.]

Sorry, no. Updated my last comment, my thumb was to fast :)

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

paste.ubuntu.com/13247836

[A.B.]

The next one sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386

[Tzatziki Xwris Kremmudi]

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

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