Why can't I download wine?

I wanted to play Wonderland Online, but it said I had to download wine. I went through all the steps but when I tried installing it the software center pops up and gives me this message:

Not found There isn't a software package called "wine1.7" in your current software sources.

So I tried doing it manually and got this result:

E: Unable to locate package wine1.7
E: Couldn't find any packages by regex 'wine1.7'

1 Answer

Try adding the PPA;

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

and if that still doesn't work try, this

sudo apt-cache search wine | grep wine

It will search for your sources for a Wine packages, and only the wine packages!

Try the following one by one in your terminal:

• sudo apt-get autoremove

• sudo apt-get -f install

• sudo dpkg --configure -a

• sudo apt-get clean

• sudo apt-get autoclean

and last but not least

• sudo apt-get update

Due note that there seems to be more broken then beats the eye. Consider possibly upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 the Trusty Thar. Advisably by clean install(CD, remove current Ubuntu 12.04.5 partition and reinstall Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Trusty Thar 14.04.1 CD/USB.)