apt - Ubuntu unable to install any packages, held broken packages - Ask Ubuntu

i know not new question , many have answered before. have tried lot of solutions , didn't work me.

i want install wine on ubuntu 16.04 lts ued following command

sudo apt-get install wine reading package lists... done building dependency tree        reading state information... done packages not installed. may mean have requested impossible situation or if using unstable distribution required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of incoming. following information may resolve situation:  following packages have unmet dependencies:  wine : depends: wine1.6 or                  wine1.8 not going installed e: unable correct problems, have held broken packages. 

also tried this:

sudo apt-get install -f reading package lists... done building dependency tree        reading state information... done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 remove , 0 not upgraded. 

so followed answers here , ran following command.

dpkg --get-selections | grep hold 

but have got no response. there no packages being shown on hold. why getting error?

after tried dpkg --get-selections see packages. there "deinstall" ran following output

dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall  ca-certificates-mono                deinstall libevent-2.0-5:amd64                deinstall libgdata2.1-cil                 deinstall libglib2.0-cil                  deinstall libgtk2.0-cil                   deinstall libmx-1.0-2:amd64               deinstall libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil           deinstall mono-runtime-common             deinstall nvidia-304                  deinstall nvidia-opencl-icd-304               deinstall tlp                     deinstall tlp-rdw                     deinstall transmission-gtk                deinstall xserver-xorg-legacy             deinstall 

but these packages cannot uninstalled. have tried answers given here , this one has not resolved anything.

i have tried aptitude approach. problem still same.

also tried synaptic package manager. unable resolve dependencies. following screen shots:

i have tried following commands:

sudo aptitude -f install wine sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get update dpkg --get-selections | grep hold dpkg --get-selections dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo aptitude -f install wine sudo apt-get -f install wine 

need help. how resolve one?

i using ubuntu 16.04 lts (64-bit) , encountered same error, "e: unable correct problems, have held broken packages." while trying install mysql-workbench.

i solved problem doing following:

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

hope works you.