Windows App Support has Unmet Dependencies. [SOLVED]

Tried to install Windows App Support from fresh install (after updating) and the Software Center says;

Unable to install "Windows App Support": The following packages have unmet dependencies:

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On Zorin OS 15. Going to try getting wine via their repo as per normal and hope it will have whatever dependency(ies) that are missing.

Update: Nope setup wine repo and the needed repo for FAudio and Windows App Support still getting the Unmet dependency error.

Update 2: Holy c*** I can't even install Wine. Something important really is missing...

Update 3: Seems to come down to it wanting

libfaudio0:i386
libpulse0:i386
libasound2-plugins:i386

As well as recommending "libsdl2-2.0-0:i386". All of which is technically there but it wants to pretty much uninstall a massive Chunk of the system, which is probably why apt, Software Center and Synaptic don't want to go down that rabbit hole.

Wine is - as we speak- putting out Wine 5. So the repos may be a bit shaky for a while. It is best to add the repo key and repo and install Wine Recommends from that.

You need to have the 32 bit architecture enabled for Wine4

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Minus y to ask for dependencies

Code:

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common wget

Next- grab the Repository key:

Code:

wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Let's get the repository added to our source list

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport

Code:

sudo apt update

Now- for the command that is going to install Wine (It may be Wine 4 or Wine 5 depending on your build):

Code:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Once your Wine 4 or 5 is installed, check to see which it is using the terminal

Code:

wine --version

What is your Software Updater Source Server? If not already it should be set to 'Main Server' as quoted in the Unoffical Manual that I wrote.

Swarfendor437 wrote:What is your Software Updater Source Server? If not already it should be set to 'Main Server' as quoted in the Unoffical Manual that I wrote.

Aravisian wrote:Wine is - as we speak- putting out Wine 5. So the repos may be a bit shaky for a while. It is best to add the repo key and repo and install Wine Recommends from that.

You need to have the 32 bit architecture enabled for Wine4

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Minus y to ask for dependencies

Code:

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common wget

Next- grab the Repository key:

Code:

wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Let's get the repository added to our source list

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport

Code:

sudo apt update

Now- for the command that is going to install Wine (It may be Wine 4 or Wine 5 depending on your build):

Code:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Once your Wine 4 or 5 is installed, check to see which it is using the terminal

Code:

wine --version

I set the software sources's source server to Main Server, updated, installed the updates that came from that, and removed the wine repo and opensuse repo (which had the faudio dependencies for 4.5+) and followed Aravisian's instructions (it still wanted to install 5.0). Still no go, still getting hit with the unmet dependencies (even tried re-adding the opensuse repo for the faudio, nothing still).

Update: Tried removing the Opensuse repo and Wine repo, leaving the backports ppa and tried for the default 4.0 but no go either.

Maybe this guide will help:

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_G ... tting_Wine

and also the source of earlier versions of Wine here:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/

Swarfendor437 wrote:Maybe this guide will help:

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_G ... tting_Wine

and also the source of earlier versions of Wine here:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/

Nah not going as far as going from source or anything (my luck probably will still fail and I'm not the type of person who likes to spend a entire day or so trying to get something like this to work), thus far Zorin is the only distro (thus far) that's been giving me this hard of a time with wine like this, I'll probably just move on to another distro, checking back every now and then. Like the look of feel of Zorin but this wine problem is deal killer for me.

Thanks and thanks to Aravisian for trying.

masternetra wrote:I set the software sources's source server to Main Server, updated, installed the updates that came from that, and removed the wine repo and opensuse repo (which had the faudio dependencies for 4.5+) and followed Aravisian's instructions (it still wanted to install 5.0). Still no go, still getting hit with the unmet dependencies (even tried re-adding the opensuse repo for the faudio, nothing still).

Update: Tried removing the Opensuse repo and Wine repo, leaving the backports ppa and tried for the default 4.0 but no go either.

It should be telling you the exact packages that are missing dependencies. Can you supply that list?

masternetra wrote:

Swarfendor437 wrote:Maybe this guide will help:

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_G ... tting_Wine

and also the source of earlier versions of Wine here:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/

Nah not going as far as going from source or anything (my luck probably will still fail and I'm not the type of person who likes to spend a entire day or so trying to get something like this to work), thus far Zorin is the only distro (thus far) that's been giving me this hard of a time with wine like this, I'll probably just move on to another distro, checking back every now and then. Like the look of feel of Zorin but this wine problem is deal killer for me.

Thanks and thanks to Aravisian for trying.

I certainly understand how you're lookin' at it. However, I have never had any trouble installing wine on Zorin. Something else may be going on. It may be that Wine is moving to version 5; it may be something else, but if it hasn't affected distros in the past and is now, you may do a wipe and reload just to have the same problem. Let's see if we can sort it out, first.
And don't worry about building from source- I am sure it won't come to that.

Aravisian wrote:

masternetra wrote:I set the software sources's source server to Main Server, updated, installed the updates that came from that, and removed the wine repo and opensuse repo (which had the faudio dependencies for 4.5+) and followed Aravisian's instructions (it still wanted to install 5.0). Still no go, still getting hit with the unmet dependencies (even tried re-adding the opensuse repo for the faudio, nothing still).

Update: Tried removing the Opensuse repo and Wine repo, leaving the backports ppa and tried for the default 4.0 but no go either.

It should be telling you the exact packages that are missing dependencies. Can you supply that list?

masternetra wrote:

Swarfendor437 wrote:Maybe this guide will help:

https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User%27s_G ... tting_Wine

and also the source of earlier versions of Wine here:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/

Nah not going as far as going from source or anything (my luck probably will still fail and I'm not the type of person who likes to spend a entire day or so trying to get something like this to work), thus far Zorin is the only distro (thus far) that's been giving me this hard of a time with wine like this, I'll probably just move on to another distro, checking back every now and then. Like the look of feel of Zorin but this wine problem is deal killer for me.

Thanks and thanks to Aravisian for trying.

I certainly understand how you're lookin' at it. However, I have never had any trouble installing wine on Zorin. Something else may be going on. It may be that Wine is moving to version 5; it may be something else, but if it hasn't affected distros in the past and is now, you may do a wipe and reload just to have the same problem. Let's see if we can sort it out, first.
And don't worry about building from source- I am sure it won't come to that.

Just finished installation, I guess my system was somehow borked, I nabbed 15.1 rc2 (originally installed with 15.1 rc1 from my storage) reinstalled the OS and set my main source to "main server" before even updating and I had no problem even installing Wine 5.0, I just setup the opensuse repo and it was good to go.

Thanks Aravisian & Swarfendor437 for your assistance.

masternetra wrote:
Just finished installation, I guess my system was somehow borked, I nabbed 15.1 rc2 (originally installed with 15.1 rc1 from my storage) reinstalled the OS and set my main source to "main server" before even updating and I had no problem even installing Wine 5.0, I just setup the opensuse repo and it was good to go.

Thanks Aravisian & Swarfendor437 for your assistance.

Good to know you solved it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
me too!

When attempting to install wine with the commands above I get stuck on the last step to actually install wine.

Below is the error i get in the terminal:

Code:

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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.1~xenial)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Kordain wrote:When attempting to install wine with the commands above I get stuck on the last step to actually install wine.

Below is the error i get in the terminal:

Code:

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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 5.0.1~xenial)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


This is due to Wine not fully being installed.
Please enter the following installation commands in terminal:

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Code:

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key; sudo apt-key add winehq.key

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'

NOTE: If you previously attempted and install using the repo for Eon Main, you MUST remove that Eon Repo First.

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport

Code:

sudo apt update

Code:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

This should give you Wine5 Stable in full. You will still need additional packages like Gecko- Just run anything through the Windows Installer and it will automatically get those packages with a pop up alerting you that it is doing so.

Once all of the above is done, then open Synaptic (or if you have not yet installed it:

Code:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

)
and search in Synaptic "windows app support" and locate that package when it loads on the Synaptic screen. Right click and select to install the package. It should say "zorin-windows-app-support - 1.1 ."