If you've ever gotten errors like this the solution is simple, you need i386 enabled on your 64-bit install because wine depends on some 32-bit x86 libraries:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install wine
After that it will install just fine.
apt install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done........
This is not the normal "black screen"issue and I was shocked to eventually find out why. The normal advice of reconfiguring Xorg didn't work. Even booting into "Recovery Mode" did not help.
Here is the short end of the stick that fixed it:
sudo apt-get install mdm mate-desktop-environment
Yes you got it right, mdm and the mate-desktop-environment / gnome were somehow uninstalled. This must be whe........
1.) gedit/pluma
both very good the only thing I wish is that there was an autosave for unsaved documents! The only other competitor which is similar but I prefer less is kwrite (although I think kwrite may have proper autosave)
pluma seems to be a renamed gedit yet gedit is still installable on Linux Mint)
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