Hi I'm trying to install wine on my fresh 64bit debian. $ sudo apt-get install wine $ wine This gives me a window with the following: ------------------ This is the wine64-bin helper package, which does not provide wine itself, but instead exists solely to provide the following information about enabling multiarch on your system in order to be able to install and run the 32-bit wine packages. The following commands should be issued as root or via sudo in order to enable multiarch (the last command installs 32-bit wine): # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update # apt-get install wine-bin:i386 Be very careful as spaces matter above. Note that this package (wine64-bin) will be removed in the process. For more information on the multiarch conversion, see: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO --------------------------- Hmm, this sounds a little fishy, I went ahead and ran the proposed: $ sudo apt-get install wine-bin:i386 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-bin:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libwine-bin:i386 (= 1.4.1-4) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. As a final step I tried: $ sudo apt-get install wine-bin:i386 libc6:i386 libwine-bin:i386 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: ant : Depends: default-jre-headless or java2-runtime-headless or java5-runtime-headless or java6-runtime-headless libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.18-4) but 2.13-38+deb7u1 is to be installed libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.13-38+deb7u1) but 2.18-4 is to be installed libcairo2 : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.21.6) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxcb-render0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxcb-shm0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxcb1 (>= 1.6) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed libcurl3-gnutls : Depends: libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libidn11 (>= 1.13) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not going to be installed Depends: librtmp0 (>= 2.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.6) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: ca-certificates but it is not going to be installed libdbus-glib-1-2 : Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.2.16) but it is not going to be installed libglib2.0-0 : Depends: libffi5 (>= 3.0.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpcre3 (>= 8.10) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libselinux1 (>= 1.32) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: shared-mime-info libimlib2 : Depends: libbz2-1.0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgif4 (>= 4.1.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libjpeg8 (>= 8c) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libtiff4 (> 3.9.5-3~) but it is not going to be installed liblua5.1-0 : Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed libwine-bin:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 1.4.1-4) but it is not going to be installed libx11-6 : Depends: libxcb1 (>= 1.2) but it is not going to be installed libxft2 : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed libxml2 : Depends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: xml-core but it is not going to be installed wine-bin:i386 : Depends: debconf:i386 (>= 0.5) or debconf-2.0:i386 Depends: x11-utils:i386 or xbase-clients:i386 (>= 4.0) but it is not installable or xcontrib:i386 but it is not installable E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. So it seems that I'm not really on the right track here, any ideas? Thanks in advance! -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk