What to do when:"The following packages have unmet dependencies"

Posted by André Izquierdo on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by André Izquierdo
Published on 2012-11-30T04:18:03Z Indexed on 2012/11/30 5:26 UTC
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When I try to install Wine, PlayonLinux, and some other programs, I get the following message:

At the terminal:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine : Depends: wine1.5 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

At the software center:

Package dependencies cannot be resolved
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.

I already tried installing them with "aptitude" and failed.

I am running Ubuntu 12.10

Please help! I've had this problem for a while now and don't know what to do!

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