Comment 41 for bug 994309

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 64bit fresh install.

Trying to install in apt-get:
andre@andre-G55VW-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine --no-install-recommends
[sudo] password for andre:
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:
 wine : Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
andre@andre-G55VW-ubuntu:~$ andre@andre-G55VW-ubuntu:~$ dpkg --version
bash: andre@andre-G55VW-ubuntu:~$: command not found
andre@andre-G55VW-ubuntu:~$ Debian `dpkg' package management program version 1.16.1.2 (amd64).

Trying to install in Software center:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

wine1.4: PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) but 1.16.1.2ubuntu7 is to be installed
         Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but 2.15-0ubuntu10.2 is to be installed
         Depends: wine1.4-amd64 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1) but 1.4-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
         Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1) but it is a virtual package

Trying to install in Synaptic:

wine:
 Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed

wine1.4:
 Depends: wine1.4-amd64 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1)