Trouble installing WINE.

[The_Budget_Gamer]

Please be aware I am still new to Linux.

 

Am using Ubuntu 18.04.1

I am trying to install WINE but have run into a problem. I am using this video

as a guide to installing it. Everything is fine up until I enter sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel into the terminal. It spits out this:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

I enter 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' into the terminal but it just tells me command not found.

 

Please help.

 

[ScratchCat]

What happens when you just run 'dpkg'?

If that shows command not found try

sudo apt-get install dpkg

It seems strange that dpkg would work yet not appear as a command

[The_Budget_Gamer]

1 minute ago, ScratchCat said:

What happens when you just run 'dpkg'?

If that shows command not found try

sudo apt-get install dpkg

It seems strange that dpkg would work yet not appear as a command

I entered dpkg and it says error: need an action.

When entering

sudo apt-get install dpkg

It gives me the same problem as in the first post.

[ScratchCat]

Try run the following to fix

sudo apt-get install -f

 

[The_Budget_Gamer]

Just now, ScratchCat said:

Try run the following to fix

sudo apt-get install -f

 

Done. Still gives me

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 

 

[duncannah]

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.19.0.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
ar x dpkg_1.19.0.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb data.tar.gz

Untar the data.tar.gz then move the binaries to /usr/bin

[Guest]

First of all fix all of your errors with sudo dpkg --configure -a then apt-get -f install, then just follow the wine guide, as listed here

https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

So 

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/

sudo apt-get update

 

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable