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shantanu
Asked: 2016-12-12 11:37:34 +0800 CST

Cannot install wine32 in Ubuntu 16.10

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I have upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04. Wine was installed in my system but after upgrade it was returning the following error.

it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"

So I purge wine and reinstall using following steps

1. sudo apt install wine-stable
2. WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32
3. wine #return error
4. wineboot

But still, when I try to run anything using wine it's shows wine32 is missing. So I tried to install win32.

sudo apt install wine32

error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 1.8.5-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed

System info

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.10
Release:    16.10
Codename:   yakkety
wine

4 Answers

  1. Would you give this a try on a fresh WINEPREFIX?

    $ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install wine32

    If still broken, try:

    $ sudo apt -f install

    Or more powerfully:

    $ sudo aptitude -f install wine32

    Just remember to READ carefully what aptitude is asking, for it could remove some packages along the way. It can give you several suggestions. You may keep trying and check which one can work for you, or what the source of the problem is.

    Otherwise you may try PlayOnLinux as it separates each virtual machine, so you may have a better chance of a cleaner install.

    As a last recourse, a badly messed up system may be a good sign for a fresh Ubuntu install. ;-)

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  2. Seems like you are trying to run on 64bit machine.

    Run below script 

    sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get install wine32

    Once you have installed 32bit wine in your ubuntu then try running *.exe by

    wine <executable-name>.exe

    Hope the error will not appear and wait for few seconds to open exe file. it depends upon on your machine configurations

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  3. As suggested by Majal, tried running

    sudo aptitude -f install wine32

    This mentioned that a bunch of *heimdal*:i386 files could not be installed, as the version of the x86_64 package was different.

    libroken18-heimdal : Breaks: libroken18-heimdal:i386 (!= 1.7~git20160703+dfsg-1) but 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1 is to be installed

    It turns out that I had a higher version of the x86_64 packages than what was available in the repositories (probably some PPA with only x86_64 packages?).

    So, using synaptic I have downgraded all the *heimdal* packages, and then I've been able to install wine.

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  4. I had similar issue. Linux Mint 20. Installing both x64 and x86. Tho when I tried to apt install wine32 I would get the response that it was already installed. Here is what I eventually did and it worked for me.

    # if you are on x64 system first enable 32 bit arch with
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# remove the original WINEPREFIX and create dir for wine32 WINEPREFIX
$ rm -r ~/.wine
$ mkdir ~/.wine32

# now install or reinstall wine32 and create WINEPREFIX
# an often missed step is including the :i386
$ sudo apt reinstall wine32:i386
$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot

# and optionally create wine64 WINEPREFIX and its dir by entering
$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" WINEARCH=win64 wine64 wineboot

# check your work
$ wine --version

    You should now have wine32 installed and if you needed it also wine64.

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