Apt-get :: apt-get install wine troubles

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root@ttyp1[dsl]# apt-get install wine
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: debconf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20020411-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbase-clients (>= 4.0) but it is not going to be installed or
xcontrib
E: Broken packages
root@ttyp1[dsl]#

Xdsl running from a live cd

wine: Depends: debconf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20020411-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbase-clients (>= 4.0) but it is not going to be installed or
xcontrib
Same error here running here running loopback.
I usually go around these problems by removing the MyDSL version of the dependents and reinstall through apt-get, but doesn't work for this one.

I just did what these guys suggested.. (comment the stable out and use the testing mirror)

7 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 161 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 42.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
...
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.

Mommy, I'm scared.

original here.