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and subject line Re: bug#744: Error: "it looks like wine32 is missing" but then cannot install wine32
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regarding Error: "it looks like wine32 is missing" but then cannot install wine32
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Package: wine
Version: 5.0.3-3
Severity: grave

  * Attempting to use wine with a 32-bit windows package advises that I
    need to install wine32.
  * Then attempting to install wine32 fails with "Some packages could
    not be installed".

Windows package: EaseUS Chrome Cache Viewer
<https://www.easeus.com/file-recovery/recover-cache-files-in-google-chrome.html>.
Forum post: dev1galaxy forum report
<https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5577>

This is the terminal attempt to use wine with the EaseUS exe file:

|$ wine ChromeCacheView.exe -folder ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache||
||it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.||
||as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"||
||it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.||
||as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"||
||002b:err:module:__wine_process_init
L"Z:\\home\\alexk\\Personal\\ChromeCache\\ChromeCacheView.exe" not
supported on this system|

Next, the terminal result of attempting to install wine32:

|$ sudo apt-get install wine32||
||[sudo] password for alexk: ||
||Reading package lists... Done||
||Building dependency tree... Done||
||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:||
|| libcurl4:i386 : Depends: libldap-2.4-2:i386 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not
going to be installed||
|| libvkd3d1:i386 : Depends: libvulkan1:i386 (>= 1.1.70) but it is not
going to be installed||
|| libwine:i386 : Depends: libldap-2.4-2:i386 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not
going to be installed||
||                Recommends: libgl1:i386 but it is not installable||
||                Recommends: libglu1-mesa:i386 but it is not
installable or||
||                            libglu1:i386||
||                Recommends: libsane1:i386 (>= 1.0.27) but it is not
installable||
||                Recommends: libvulkan1:i386 (>= 1.2.131.2) but it is
not going to be installed||
||                Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not
installable||
||E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.|

(I checked: there were & are zero broken packages)

Now the system info + sources.list (system is fully updated daily):

|$ uname -a||
||Linux ng3 6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian
6.0.12-1~bpo11+1 (2022-12-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux||
||$ lsb_release -a||
||No LSB modules are available.||
||Distributor ID:    Devuan||
||Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)||
||Release:    4||
||Codename:    chimaera||
||$ grep -h ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*||
||deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib||
||deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main non-free contrib||
||deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main non-free contrib||
||deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-proposed-updates main
non-free contrib||
||deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main non-free
contrib||
||deb https://josm.openstreetmap.de/apt/ alldist universe |

- Alex Kemp
Alex,

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 01:46:19PM +0000, Alex Kemp wrote:
> Thanks for your expert direction so far, Mark, but I am abandoning wine at
> this point, and have removed all traces from my system. I took a look at the
> staggeringly-large list of :i386 packages that were required to support
> wine32 & decided "no thanks".

OK, thanks for this. I will close the report as I don't think there is a bug as
such, just a backports version combination that needed to be worked around.

Mark