Intalling wine in elementary os

Ubuntu
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i was installing wine in my elementary os from official wine website https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu. I was at last step when it showed this error .
sudo apt install –install-recommends winehq-stable
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:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.3~bionic)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

now no fix is working I am stuck please help me

2

What did you try to do?

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everything that’s mentioned here



https://linuxhint.com/apt_get_fix_missing_broken_packages/
4

So I guess you did not try to remove it yet.

You could try to do something like this:

sudo apt remove -y winehq-stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y winehq-stable
5

why would I remove it when it has not installed yet?

6

Because you tried to install it and it did not work. So you want to have a “clean slate” before attempting an actual installation.

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so, as you’ve noticed I am using elementary os. I think eOS has something different than Ubuntu that’s why its not installing wine. I followed this method and it installed wine perfectly.

Thanks Akito for your assistance. good-bye