Hi!

I've installed wine-devel (i386+amd64 versions) without any issues around March-April from the official wine repo: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/. From searching on this forum, it looks like installing Wine from that source was broken for a while last year but then was fixed, so I did not have any issue installing it. However, now it's telling me that the installation is broken, and I can only keep the current broken status (it does not resolve correctly dependencies for updating it either). The workaround for the previous issue is not working. Any clues?

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dyeray@blablabla:~$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 2
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 2
Investigating (0) wine-devel:amd64 < 4.4~bionic @ii mK Ib >
Broken wine-devel:amd64 Conflicts on wine-devel:i386 < none -> 4.7~bionic @un uN Ib >
  Considering wine-devel:i386 -2 as a solution to wine-devel:amd64 -1
  Added wine-devel:i386 to the remove list
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.6~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.5~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.4~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.3~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.2~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.1~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc7~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc6~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc5~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc4~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc3~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc2~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc2~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc1~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~rc1~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 4.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.21.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.21.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.20.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.20.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.19.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.19.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.18.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.18.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.17.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.17.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.16.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.16.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.15.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.15.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.14.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.14.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.13.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.13.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.12.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.12.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.11.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.11.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.10.0~bionic for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.10.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.9.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.8.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.7.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.6.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.5.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.4.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.3.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.2.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.1.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc6~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc5~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc4~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc3~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc2~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 3.0~rc1~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 2.22.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 2.21.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 2.20.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 2.19.0~artful for wine-devel but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Fixing wine-devel:amd64 via keep of wine-devel:i386
Investigating (1) winehq-devel:amd64 < 4.4~bionic -> 4.7~bionic @ii umU Ib >
Broken winehq-devel:amd64 Depends on wine-devel:amd64 < 4.4~bionic @ii mK > (= 4.7~bionic)
  Considering wine-devel:amd64 -1 as a solution to winehq-devel:amd64 0
  Holding Back winehq-devel:amd64 rather than change wine-devel:amd64
 Try to Re-Instate (2) winehq-devel:amd64
Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  winehq-devel
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Thanks!

Although I'm not using Wine at the present, I always used the method here:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
I've just ran it now & it installs fine.
Remember as well that you seem to be using the development packages & not the stable ones. So conflicts & errors are likely.
Unless you need the devel packages for a specific reason, I would uninstall all your wine packages, delete the configuration files from your home folder, & start again using the above method with winehq-stable.

wine-devel from winehq is not a "-devel" package, so that's not the issue. It is very likely a dep issue in winehq's packages, as both winehq-stable and winehq-staging don't have any dependency issues. It seems both wine-devel and wine-staging are at the same version at the moment, so I wonder if this making it messy?

winehq is always potentially messy, and it is very much so on my non-Neon 19.04 box, so I moved to Lutris for that One Thing i need wine for (and it needs a staging version). This tool manages a lot of different wine builds without needing to use extra repos at all.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try wine-staging when I get home and see how it goes. In fact I'm using Lutris too, which suggests installing wine-devel, if I'm not mistaken. It uses its own Wine builds for games, but I remember it somehow uses some stuff from the system wine and it suggested the latest possible.

Confirmed, this issue only affects wine-devel package and Lutris works alright with wine-staging package. Thanks!