[Wine] Re: Newbie to Linux

[Chad]

mpgarcia wrote:
> Will someone please make me a believer?  I have just started using Linux.  I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine so that I may play certain games.  While trying to install, I got the following message...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
>         Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> 
> How do I go about fixing this?


You may have better luck at http://ubuntuforums.org/ with these types of questions.

The following link looks to be different solutions some people have for the issue you are experiencing...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582630