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I can't install WINE on KDE neon 5.26 (Ubuntu 22.10). I followed the WineHQ installation guide https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu.

I know that KDE neon comes with WINE pre-installed, but I've removed it prior to installing the new version.

The step that fails is the actual winehq-stable package installation. I've tried winehq-devel and winehq-staging packages, but ended up with the same results.

$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Investigating (0) winehq-stable:amd64 < none -> 7.0.1~kinetic-1 @un puN Ib >
Broken winehq-stable:amd64 Depends on wine-stable:amd64 < none @un H > (= 7.0.1~kinetic-1)
  Considering wine-stable:amd64 0 as a solution to winehq-stable:amd64 9999
  Considering wine-stable:i386 0 as a solution to winehq-stable:amd64 9999
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:
 winehq-stable : Depends: wine-stable (= 7.0.1~kinetic-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've checked if I maybe have some stray WINE packages installed, but there's nothing, except for an unfortunate kwin package that has "wine" in it's name:

$ apt list --installed | grep wine

libkwineffects14/jammy,now 4:5.26.3-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build21 amd64 [installed]
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  • Did you try installing wine-stable before winehq-stable?
    – mashuptwice
    Commented Nov 23, 2022 at 18:40
  • No, but isn't wine-stable contained within winehq-stable? If I install wine-stable, won't I have to install other dependencies that would be contained by winehq-stable anyways?
    – bezbos.
    Commented Nov 23, 2022 at 19:41
  • just a note, KDE Neon is not Ubuntu 22.10. Neon is built on Ubuntu, but they are not the same. Neon is KDE's distro for testing. However, Neon devs say it really shouldnt be used as a "daily driver" and to use Ubuntu instead. It should be used to test or use the latest KDE software.
    – Keltari
    Commented Dec 28, 2022 at 1:30
  • @Keltari where do they say that? I've been using KDE Neon for almost a year now as my daily driver and it's been very pleasant, excluding a few plasmashell restarts here and there and this issue with Wine, but generally everything else is good.
    – bezbos.
    Commented Dec 29, 2022 at 13:22

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Someone has solved this issue by installing an older version of libpoppler-glib8: https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/ya6wmb/comment/itaavu8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

And then there was only one package causing an issue. You can see that Neon provides this in amd64:

$ apt show -a libpoppler-glib8 | grep Version
Version: 22.09.0-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build3
Version: 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.1
Version: 22.02.0-2

But doesn't provide an i386 version at all:

$ apt show -a libpoppler-glib8:i386 | grep Version
Version: 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.1
Version: 22.02.0-2

So then you can install the Ubuntu version for both architectures like so:

sudo apt install libpoppler-glib8:{i386,amd64}=22.02.0-2ubuntu0.1

And then WINE installs just fine

After this you can install the wine package from one of the wine branches. In this case I'll pick winehq-stable:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
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