error when installing wine

[moliphant4]

when I attempt to install wine this is the message I get in the terminal.
ding package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up wine (1.0.1-0ubuntu ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing wine (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of playonlinux:
playonlinux depends on wine; however:
Package wine is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing playonlinux (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
wine
playonlinux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[devils casper]

Execute this

cd /var/lib/dpkg/updates
sudo rm *
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine