[Wine] Newbie to Linux

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sunday 23 March 2008 02:37:24 pm mpgarcia wrote:
> Will someone please make me a believer?  I have just started using Linux. 

We'll try.  Thanks for meeting us halfway with a well-asked question!

> 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?

What was the command line you used to install that?

Sometimes, such problems can occur when the packages currently available on 
the apt repository don't match what's in the package cache locally, for one 
reason or another.  What happens if  you run this in your favorite shell...

$ sudo aptitude update

...and then attempting to install wine again?

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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