Wine-staging fails to install on 18.04

Question

I'm trying to run games through Lutris and followed their wiki on installing wine-staging.

When running:

$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

I get the error they predict, but then when running:

$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging wine-staging wine-staging-i386

I still have the unmet dependencies error (output below).

Could anyone direct me to a solution?

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-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 4.13~bionic) but it is not going to be installed
 wine-staging-i386:i386 : Depends: libfaudio0:i386 but it is not installable
                          Recommends: libcairo2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libcapi20-3:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libcups2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libglu1-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                                      libglu1:i386
                          Recommends: libgsm1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libgtk-3-0:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libkrb5-3:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libodbc1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libosmesa6:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libpcap0.8:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libsane:i386 or
                                  libsane1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libv4l-0:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libva-drm2:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                                      libva-drm1:i386 but it is not installable
                          Recommends: libva-x11-2:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                                      libva-x11-1:i386 but it is not installable
                          Recommends: libva2:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                                      libva1:i386 but it is not installable
                          Recommends: libxcomposite1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                          Recommends: libxslt1.1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

score 23 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

I followed the instructions found here to download the missing libfaudio:i386.

Ubuntu 18.04:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key

Add the repository:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./'

Then update:

sudo apt update

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 04:33

I had similar problem, I went down a few different rabbit-holes so thought it might help others if I detail my solution. I am not particularly au fait with the apt packaging process or wine so I will list out everything that I went through from upgrading from wine3.0 to wine5.0 on ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

Purge all from APT!

sudo apt-get purge *wine*

Check that there's no snaps installed too (for some reason i had this - not sure if it would impact so i assumed best to remove)

sudo snap remove wine
sudo snap update wine-platform-*

Remove the PPA official repos (they changed how they packaged this). We need to dig inside /etc/apt

grep -Ril "wine" /etc/apt

If you get any matches comment them out or delete the keys, we will fully re-add later.

Enable 32-bit & add new repo (check here for other ubuntu versions)

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt autoremove --purge
sudo apt upgrade

Let's get the libfaudio & libasound2 which are the broken repos:

wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfaudio0 libasound2-plugins:i386 -y

Now we can install wine 5.0 as normal!

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable -y

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 18 '19 at 09:59

As pointed out by @chilly-chease, libfaudio0:i386 package is missing in ubuntu 18.04 repositories.

The most simple way to fix it would be:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 15 '19 at 21:58

When you first executed:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging

You left your package manager in a broken state and you need to remove all wine related packages first and get a working package state:

sudo apt remove winehq-staging wine\*
sudo apt install -f

Once you have your package manager in a working state you can try the workaround command of avoiding installing some recommended packages.

Wine-staging fails to install on 18.04

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