wine1.6 How to fix installation

Question

sudo apt-get install wine1.6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package wine1.6 is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

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W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

E: Package 'wine1.6' has no installation candidate

(Apt-get update) not working...

Answer 1

You have to add the repository:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.6

There are alternative ways to install, too: See in WineHQ - Getting Wine.