can't install wine

[vinnywright]

try this and see if you get more info on what held packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

if this completes with some upgrades then try installing wine again

VINNY

[rybnik]

sudo apt-get install wine returns the following error message

[sudo] password for sam: 
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: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I don't know what this means.