[Bug 52459] New: Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52459

Bug ID: 52459
           Summary: Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or
                    20.03 Cinnamon desktop
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.0
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: Mint

Wine 7 will not install on Linux Mint 20.03 or 20.02 running the Cinnamon
desktop, either as in upgrade from Wine 6.02 or as a fresh install.

Trying to install through the Mint update manager just deletes all files in the
/opt/wine-stable/bin folder except:

wine
wine64
wine64-preloader
wine-preloader

Trying to install via the command line with:

sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

results in:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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 (= 7.0.0.0~focal-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

We then get into a series.  Trying to install wine-stable results in:

wine-stable : Depends: wine-stable-i386 (= 7.0.0.0~focal-1)

then:

wine-stable-i386:i386 : Depends: libsane:i386 (>= 1.0.24) but it is not going
to be installed

then:

libsane:i386 : Depends: libsnmp35:i386 (>= 5.8+dfsg) but it is not going to be
installed

then:

libsnmp35:i386 : Depends: libmysqlclient21:i386 (>= 8.0.11) but it is not going
to be installed

and finally:

mysql-common 5.8+1.0.5ubuntu2 [Not candidate version]
E: Package 'mysql-common:i386' has no installation candidate

That latter two errors don't even make any sense since wine has nothing to do
with mysql.

These errors were reproduced on both Mint 20.03 and 2.02 with the Cinnamon
desktop on two different computers.  However, wine 7 did install successfully
on a laptop running Mine 20.03 with the Xfce desktop.

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52459

--- Comment #1 from Phil Manger  ---
"2.02" in the last paragraph should read 3.02

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

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--- Comment #2 from Phil Manger  ---
Messed up again.  "2.02" should read "20.02", not "3.02".

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

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Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Version|7.0                         |unspecified
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Product|Wine                        |Packaging
          Component|-unknown                    |wine-packages

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
For Ubuntu users, this type of problem usually happens when they've installed
packages from a PPA. In the case of Mint, it's also possible packages in the
Mint repository that differ from the Ubuntu ones are causing the problem.
Either way, it's not a bug. WineHQ packages are built against dependencies in
the standard and universe Ubuntu repositories, and that's the only
configuration that is supported. As you noted yourself, you were able to
install Wine on a laptop running Mint, so the problem is something installed on
the problem systems.

See also bug 52011 and bug 52437.

If you need help sorting out the dependencies, ask for it on the forum.

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #4 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Closing.

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52459

--- Comment #5 from Phil Manger  ---
You're right.  I had a more recent version of MariaDB than the version
distributed by the "official" Ubuntu repositories.  The solution was found in
the 52011 bug report:  Enter

sudo apt install mysql-common=5.8+1.0.5ubuntu2

before installing Wine 7.0.  That did the trick.  So far, MariaDB seems to work
fine after the downgrade.  However, I'm wondering why mysql-common is required
at all.  I know it's required by libmysqlclient21:i386 which is in turn
required by libsnmp35:i386 and that in turn by libsane:i386 and I can see why
libsane (which I believe is a library for scanner software) might be required
by Wine.  But what does MySQL have to do with any of that?

[Bug 52459] Wine won't install or upgrade on Linux MInt 20.02 or 20.03 Cinnamon desktop

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52459

--- Comment #6 from Austin English  ---
> However, I'm wondering why mysql-common is
> required at all.  I know it's required by libmysqlclient21:i386 which is in
> turn required by libsnmp35:i386 and that in turn by libsane:i386 and I can
> see why libsane (which I believe is a library for scanner software) might be
> required by Wine.  But what does MySQL have to do with any of that?

Wine uses libsane for scanner support; libsane itself, or its other reverse
dependencies probably require mysql, which leads to the error.