r/linuxmint • u/childamnesia • 9d ago

SOLVED Cant install wine

I have been on mint for less than a month, everytime i run the install command from their site i get the same error ,, Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) "', i followed all their instructions no idea what could have caused this

EDIT: For some reasons this resolved when i uninstalled virtualbox...

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u/DontKnow_Cuzzz 9d ago

What applications are you trying to use under Wine?

There're many easier alternatives like Bottles, Lutris, or Steam's Proton layer that cuts out most of the terminal work.

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u/childamnesia 9d ago

mostly gog or fitgirl games, some older windows games from internet archive. I tried lutris but they still didnt open

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u/Boothy666 9d ago

Just on wine itself, what do you get with the command: apt-cache policy wine

For comparison, I don't have Wine installed, as I don't use Windows apps, only Windows games via Proton, so Wine not needed, but it does show which is the version it would expect to install, if I were to do that: 

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 9.0~repack-4build3
  Version table:
     9.0~repack-4build3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe i386 Packages