Installing Playonlinux removes thousands of packages

Bug #1317028 reported by Bober
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playonlinux (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I want to install playonlinux but the dependecies will remove all of the following packages for some reason

Sudo apt-get install playonlinux
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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 playonlinux : Depends: wine or
                        wine-unstable but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
bober@BoberBot:~$

Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Synaptic shows almost all my packages as need to be removed

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Bober (bober-182) wrote :
affects: wine1.4 (Ubuntu) → playonlinux (Ubuntu)
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Bober (bober-182) wrote :
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Bober (bober-182) wrote :

bober@BoberBot:~$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 7 06:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 7 01:06 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 May 7 06:41 jitsi.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 May 7 06:41 jitsi.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 May 7 06:41 steam.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 May 7 06:41 steam.list.save

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Bober (bober-182) wrote :

sudo apt-get install wine
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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Ronin Dusette (ronindusette) wrote :

The only reason this happens is when you have conflicting lists of packages in multiple repositories. This is usually caused by using PPA's with conflicting packages, and from what I can see, you have a bunch of PPA's installed, and packages dependent on each other must be fighting for dependencies and versions of those specific packages. They are commented out, sure, but I think that however you have been managing packages is messing things up. From the screenshot you posted, your problem is likely with the xorg-edgers PPA, as you have it commented out, it can no longer see those versions of those packages, and therefore needs to uninstall them. This is not a PlayOnLinux issue, as no one is reporting this. This is specific to your package manager, as it is broken from package conflicts. It is not a bug. Please remove all PPA's, downgrade your packages, and try to install PlayOnLinux again.

Changed in playonlinux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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