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?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM, mpgarcia <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I have Ubuntu 7.10 and tried to install Wine [but I got the error]: > 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 packagesWhere did you get your copy of Wine? - Dan
On 23/03/2008, mpgarcia <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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? >This looks more of an Ubuntu issue. Sign up for the ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list, and post the entire output (including the commands that you type) of "sudo apt-get install wine" and "cat /etc/apt/sources.list"to that list. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? - -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5tFtUCxPKZafKh0RAtMkAJ4uAV25koBxEhH01lwlDoiCTf5I3ACeNOLS qfKG7R0SEaC77ox7+ngdXjE=T33y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
just install it using the synaptic package manager system > administration > Synaptic package manager type in wine in the search check wine off... press apply and you are good to go!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:11:36 pm starfox5194 wrote:> just install it using the synaptic package manager > > system > administration > Synaptic package manager > > type in wine in the search > > check wine off... press apply and you are good to go!Your advice will probably result in the same error without some other intervention. Please read the original post: They posted installation log output. - -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5tfvUCxPKZafKh0RAlixAJ90mOcckE4tOFPpIIOA3G06S/Q7pQCfc/oU x74tFGrq7+RgkoCHeay1pUY=j7Z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----