wine: Depends wine1.6 or wine1.8 but it is not going to be installed, you have held broken packages [duplicate]

Solution 1:

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit) and encountered the same error, "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." while trying to install mysql-workbench.

I solved the problem by doing the following:

  1. sudo apt autoremove (remove packages that are no longer needed)
  2. sudo apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get install package-name (e.g. wine, mysql-workbench, etc.)

Hope it works for you.