Can't lock wine-staging-i386 version using muon

[blackadderkate]

TLDR: I can't lock the wine-staging-i386 package using MUON.

The long explanation:
I needed to install .NET Framework 4.5 on my Wine prefix but the installer hung. I found it was a known bug in wine-stable and was fixed in a later version. So I installed wine-staging using MUON. Everything installed normally, and I got .NET Framework installed.

Problem solved, or so I thought...

Next day, I discovered a new version of wine-staging was available. That's a Gig or so of unnecessary downloading - on a fairly regular basis - so I decided to lock Wine-Staging.
All of the packages locked successfully, except wine-stable-i386 which just refuses to lock. Literally nothing happens when I select the option...

So I thought I'd try from the command line:

sudo apt-mark hold wine-staging-i386

Even that didn't work. It still shows up as "upgradeable" in MUON.

Any ideas?

[blackadderkate]

hmm.

The file /etc/apt/preferences.d/wine-staging-i386 is present and looks correct...

Package: wine-staging-i386
Pin: version 6.22~focal-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

[GreyGeek]

You'd best check if any dependencies exist and if they do then lock them as well.

apt-cache showpkg wine
Package: wine
Versions:  
5.0-3ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_bin ary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/
apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_bin ary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:  
                File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_bin ary-amd64_Packages
                 MD5: 4ebadaf7bd4b6c9116b711ef450d53cd


Reverse Depends:
 wine64,wine 5.0-3ubuntu1
 gpgv-win32,wine
 libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev,wine
 cpio-win32,wine
 pq,wine
 playonlinux,wine
 winetricks,wine
 wine64-tools,wine 5.0-3ubuntu1
 carla-bridge-wine64,wine
 wine-stable,wine
 wine-binfmt,wine
 q4wine,wine
 nsis,wine
 mingw-w64-i686-dev,wine
 libgpg-error-mingw-w64-dev,wine
 libgcrypt-mingw-w64-dev,wine
 libassuan-mingw-w64-dev,wine
 jcadencii,wine
 gzip-win32,wine
 gpgv-win32,wine
 games-emulator,wine
 exe-thumbnailer,wine
 cpio-win32,wine

Dependencies:
5.0-3ubuntu1 - wine64 (18 5.0-3ubuntu1) wine32 (2 5.0-3ubuntu1) wine64 (19 5.0-3ubuntu1.1~) wine32 (3 5.0-3ubuntu
1.1~) wine-stable (3 3.0.1ubuntu1~) q4wine (0 (null)) winbind (0 (null)) winetricks (0 (null)) playonlinux (0 (nu
ll)) wine-binfmt (0 (null)) dosbox (2 0.74-4.2~) exe-thumbnailer (16 (null)) kio-extras (0 (null)) wine-stable (3
3.0.1ubuntu1~) wine-stable:i386 (3 3.0.1ubuntu1~) wine-stable:i386 (3 3.0.1ubuntu1~)  
Provides:  
5.0-3ubuntu1 - wine:i386 (= 5.0-3ubuntu1) wine:i386 (= ) wine (= )  
Reverse Provides:  
wine-development 5.5-3ubuntu1 (= )
wine 5.0-3ubuntu1 (= )

[claydoh]

I also wonder if installing wine-staging over wine-stable leaves some stray bits behind causing issues.
Me, I'd recommend using PlayonLinux or Lutris, since they manage wine prefixes and using multiple version of Wine soooo much easier.

[oshunluvr]

sudo apt-mark hold <package-name>

[Snowhog]

Which he stated in his OP he has done.

[claydoh]

What about winehq-staging-i386, as well as any other wine*-staging-* package? You probably want to keep all the wine packages the same version

Description: WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix.
.
This compatibility package allows to use wine-staging system-wide as
the default Wine version.