Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation? - Trying to install wine32 and wine64 meta packages
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)? - Nothing. Debian will not allow cross-installation of 32bit and 64bit wine packages.
* What was the outcome of this action? - N/A
* What outcome did you expect instead? - Installation of both wine32 and wine64 to be successful
Here is what happens when trying to install wine32 and wine64 as per the Debian Wiki:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update
sudo apt install \
wine \
wine32 \
wine64 \
libwine \
libwine:i386 \
fonts-wine
[sudo] password for user:
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security InRelease
11 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Solving dependencies... Error!
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:
Unsatisfied dependencies:
fonts-wine : Depends: wine-common but it is not going to be installed
libwine : Depends: wine-common but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavformat61 (>= 7:7.0)
Depends: libcapi20-3t64 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libz-mingw-w64 (>= 1.2.11+dfsg-4) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libodbc2 (>= 2.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libasound2-plugins but it is not going to be installed
libwine:i386 : Depends: wine-common:i386
Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 (>= 2.12.6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfreetype6:i386 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libasound2t64:i386 (>= 1.0.16)
Depends: libavcodec61:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavformat61:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavutil59:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcapi20-3t64:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0t64:i386 (>= 2.80.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgphoto2-6t64:i386 (>= 2.5.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgphoto2-port12t64:i386 (>= 2.5.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgstreamer1.0-0:i386 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpcap0.8t64:i386 (>= 1.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpcsclite1:i386 (>= 1.3.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpulse0:i386 (>= 0.99.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libudev1:i386 (>= 183) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libusb-1.0-0:i386 (>= 2:1.0.21) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwayland-egl1:i386 (>= 1.15.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxext6:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxkbcommon0:i386 (>= 0.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxkbregistry0:i386 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
libopencl1:i386
Depends: ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libopencl-1.2-1:i386
Depends: libz-mingw-w64:i386 (>= 1.2.11+dfsg-4)
Recommends: libcups2t64:i386 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libdbus-1-3:i386 (>= 1.10) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libegl1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgl1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgnutls30t64:i386 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libkrb5-3:i386 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libodbc2:i386 (>= 2.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.0.12)
Recommends: libv4l-0t64:i386 (>= 0.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxcomposite1:i386 (>= 1:0.4.6) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxcursor1:i386 (> 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxfixes3:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxi6:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxinerama1:i386 (>= 2:1.1.4) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxrandr2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxrender1:i386 (>= 1:0.9.12) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libxxf86vm1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting assignments:
1. libavformat61:i386=7:7.1.3-1 is selected for install because:
1. libwine:i386=10.0~repack-11 is selected for install
2. libwine:i386 Depends libavformat61:i386 (>= 7:7.0)
3. libavformat61:i386 is available in version 7:7.1.3-1
2. libavformat61:i386=7:7.1.3-1 is not selected for install because:
1. libwine:amd64=10.0~repack-11 is selected for install
2. libwine:amd64 Depends libavformat61 (>= 7:7.0)
3. libavformat-extra61:amd64 Conflicts libavformat61:i386
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Your problem is unrelated to #1122868, the root cause is a conflict between FFmpeg libraries that WINE depends on. Le Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 05:58:50PM -0500, William Varona a écrit : A. with libavformat-extra61: apt install --mark-auto libavformat-extra61:amd64 libavformat-extra61:i386 apt install wine wine64:amd64 wine32:i386 B. with libavformat61: apt install --mark-auto libavformat61:amd64 libavformat61:i386 apt install wine wine64:amd64 wine32:i386
Le Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 07:00:09PM -0500, William Varona a écrit : The real problem here is a failure by apt in resolving the dependencies. With libavformat-extra61:amd64 already installed on your system, it should have tried to install libavformat-extra61:i386 but instead it tried (and failed) to install libavformat61:i386. It might be worth reassiging this bug report to apt, marking it as affecting wine and src:ffmpeg.
Also worth noting is that 61 is not installed on my system.
dpkg -l | grep libavformat
ii libavformat62:amd64 7:8.0.1-3
amd64 FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia
containers - runtime files
Le Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 07:29:53PM -0500, William Varona a écrit : That explain the root cause of your problem: - on amd64 testing, only libavformat-extra61 is available - on i386 testing, only libavformat61 is available apt is actually failing for a good reason here, this conflict can not be solved using testing repositories alone. wine 10.0~repack-12 from unstable depends on libavformat62/libavformat-extra62 instead, so it should be installable on your system. You’re once again facing several options: A. Install wine / wine64 / wine32 / libwine from unstable. B. Install libavformat61 / libavformat-extra61 from unstable. C. Install libavformat61 / libavformat-extra61 from stable.
Le Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 01:41:25PM -0500, William Varona a écrit : Sorry, I am not going to spend the time needed to debug these testing-specific problems as I do not run testing myself, so I can only give advice for trivial stuff. My answer is only so this last message of yours is forwarded to the bug report.
Control: block -1 by 1121773 This particular issue shouldn't be a problem since unstable now has libcapi20-3t64 1:3.27-3.2+b2 on both amd64 and i386. I think the main problem here can probably only be resolved once wine's current problems migrating to testing are resolved, as seen in https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wine. That means this bug is likely blocked on at least #1121773, although there may be other problems too.
It’s more than just libcapi that is the problem though. There is a libav* package that was an issue as well, and I only found out libcapi was an issue after manually satisfying the dependency of the libav package. So there is the potential of more missing dependencies after libcapi. I didn’t try satisfying that dependency to find out though. Regards, William Varona Sent from Gmail for iOS