can't install wine successfully

[autumn]

Hello, tried to follow the guide, which said to go for winehq-staging. That said it needed wine-staging, which wouldn't install, but wine-staging-amd64 installed ... but then can't create prefix as winehq-staging needed, which I can't install ...

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-staging : Depends: wine-staging (= 9.21-1mx23+1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Tried winetricks incase would help in some way but is installing wine wine64 as well. This helped, as then able do
WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg to create a wine folder.
Running winecfg says to do this ... sudo apt-get install wine32:i386, which I did.
Then winecfg won't run ... wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135

Trying install stuff via winetricks in terminal ... spelt as follows:
egedit.exe C:\windows\Temp\override-dll.reg returned status 53. Aborting.
Tried winetricks gui ...
Note: command wine C:windowssyswow64
egedit.exe C:windowsTempoverride-dll.reg returned status 53. Aborting.

Installed wine32 from debian backports tab, after seeing sometimes 32bit stuff is missing via this link: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu, but still same errors.

I've clearly franken-installed, but am not sure what to try now, or how to purge the mess and start clean.

[autumn]

Possibly posted too soon, but it may be helpful to others ... did a search and saw someone say to remove .wine folder, then run winecfg again to create a fresh one. That seems to have helped in being able to use winetricks to install the bits and pieces, so far. Nothing been run yet though, so will update.

EDIT: found how to add the 'load with wine' option ... copy the wine example file from /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/ to /usr/share/applications/. Then can right click/open with other application and wine loader will be there.
Also found an up to date arronax link, which enables making shortcuts ... https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/ ... d/26906422.
The bottom deb is the one to download. Always easy to make shortcuts for wine programs through arronax.

[Eadwine Rose]

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Thanks. :)

[autumn]

Hadn't realised needed to do that, with it being a standard wine problem (I'm seeing absolutely everywhere, from searching since posting), but will make sure add it after post.

Found article on how to purge wine, but no matter what I'm doing, cannot get it downloaded properly.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debia ... rm.sources ... this results in 304 Not Modified error. File ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-bookworm.sources’ not modified on server. Omitting download.
tried sudo apt update and sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
... whether try from package installer or directly like this, same 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-staging : Depends: wine-staging (= 10.0~rc4~bookworm-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Snapshot created on: 20241215_1628
System:
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    splash
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Repos:
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Info:
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Boot Mode: UEFI

[Stevo]

Exactly what guide is this?

Hello, tried to follow the guide, which said to go for winehq-staging.

The i386 arch is enabled by default on 64-bit MX, precisely to make things easier than on Debian, so no need for the following or adding winehq repos either.

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

My guide: install our "wine" from the MX repos using MXPI, that wine version is actually wine-staging. Done.

[autumn]

Sorry, I didn't want to say it was MX's page I was reading; since it's over 2 years since installing anything wine, needed to refresh, but I've realised the page may be out of date? Seem to have got into a bit of a loop, unless it's that I have the winehq repo still enabled. Installed 'wine' from main tab, and ran winecfg, which says it needs sudo apt-get install wine32:i386 to be ran, as wine32 is missing. I've done that, then run winecfg again and it won't load ... wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135.

Will try purging wine, removing repo and try installing wine from main tab again. Although I'm not sure in doing I think two purges so far I've maybe purged what is already installed on MX? This particular purge removes libwine* wine* wine64*
EDIT: done purge and removal of winehq repo, and now a new error after installing wine and running winecfg ...
wine: '/home/watership/.wine' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used with a 32-bit wineserver [art program needs 32-bit].

[txm0523]

I have installed Wine by going to this site:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/w ... ian-Ubuntu ( It does a good job of explaining the process and about Wine app in the repositories )

Once installed and PC rebooted, I am able to run two MS Win apps flawlessly.

On a side note, I did install also Winetricks. This enabled me to uninstall any MS Win apps that were installed, if the actual app did not have an uninstaller included with it.

Hope this helps.

[Stevo]

Well, with playonlinux in the repos, you can install various self-contained versions of wine in wine "bottles", so you don't have to mess with that.

Hmmm--the 2015 MX wiki Wine guide seems to be mostly still relevant, none of that other stuff: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/wine/

[autumn]

Thanks txm0523, really appreciate. Actually I'd seen the guide and meant to go and find who posted it, to read further, as I did hit the same issue unfortunately despite following the guide.

Thanks Stevo, great to know, and glad the wiki guide's okay, but I really need to get wine installed for other things too, and very used to having a working wine on the system overall. It used to be a hit-and-miss grind sorting out individual things via POL, although I was thankful for it back then; having a system wine was life changing, lol. Does it sound like I've removed the MX-installed wine? and, if I've managed that genius move, how would I put it back, then try the basic wine install again?

[autumn]

After a hell I don't want to go through again, lol, ended up doing a purge then trying all 5 debian backport tabbed packages. Along with winetricks and the various installs via that, have got stuff running. Just configuring the graphics tablet left, but that can happen later, post-recovery, lol.