Problem installing wine on Ubuntu 12.10

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Published on 2012-11-02T09:49:39Z Indexed on 2012/11/02 11:17 UTC
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I am having problem when installing wine on ubuntu 12.10

I tried to following some tutorial but none of them work.

 **root@ubuntu:~# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa**

 **root@ubuntu:~# apt-get update**

 **root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install wine1.5**

 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree 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:  wine1.5 : Depends:
 wine1.5-i386 (= 1.5.16-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
            Recommends: ttf-droid
            Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: ttf-umefont but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: winbind but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
 root@ubuntu:~#

Anyone can help me how to solve th problem ?

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