Wine installation problem

[Sandy3002]

Yeah apt was fixed and functioning perfectly

[Aravisian]

So current standing is- Zorin OS 15.3 Education functional - midway through installing Wine which is throwing crazy dependency errors... Correct?

[Sandy3002]

Yes absolutely. All other tasks are functional, except the wine and sometimes libc6, like while installing qt5 or stuff like that for playing video games, it shows higher libc6 is required, but the default for zorin is 2.28(hope I am correct) so those can't be installed as many things depends on version 2.28.

[Aravisian]

In this case, I would like to back up a bit and start over- partly due to Artyom Zorins post here:

Zorin-windows-app-support

Thanks for letting us know about this issue! We've seen some reports of it, and it looks like the issue affects a subset of users attempting to install this package. We've published a new version of the zorin-windows-app-support package a few minutes ago which should fix this issue for everyone. Just to make sure WINE installs correctly with it, it's recommended to either open the Software Updater or run sudo apt update before installing the package.

I think opening Software & Updates app and removing any WineHQ repositories first... Then removing ~/.wine directory manually...
Then run

sudo apt remove --purge wine*

Get rid of anything that may be bungling up the pipes.
Then test if the package zorin-windows-app-support will now get you sorted out. This is not a pedestal action; I have learned in my time using Zorin OS that if an existing method or app exists, often ZorinGroup finds a way to do it thoroughly and better. So, fingers crossed...:

sudo apt install -y zorin-windows-app-support

[Sandy3002]

That did it!! Thanks a lot

[Aravisian]

We needed a "win"...

Thanks to ZorinGroup for correcting packages.

[Paddy]

That worked a treat! Thanks very much. Oct 2023 Zorin 16