Error: Could Not Refresh the List of Updates

GardenGuy42 · 09-24-2018, 07:37 PM

When I click on Refresh it comes back with "Your system is yp to date", no error messages.

hydrurga · 09-24-2018, 10:36 PM

Excellent. Thanks (and sorry for the delay - we're on different time zones). Let's double check which version of Wine you have installed:

Code:

dpkg -l "*wine*"

GardenGuy42 · 09-25-2018, 09:55 AM

Code:

dpkg -l "*wine*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  wine           <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine-amd64     <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine-i386      <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  wine-stable    3.0.3~xenial amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS
ii  wine-stable-am 3.0.3~xenial amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS
ii  wine-stable-i3 3.0.3~xenial i386         WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS
un  wine1.4        <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.4-amd64  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.4-i386   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5        <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5-amd64  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.5-i386   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6        <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6-amd64  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.6-i386   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7        <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7-amd64  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine1.7-i386   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine32         <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wine64         <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  winehq-stable  3.0.3~xenial amd64        WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 10:09 AM

Thanks, GG. Just as a note, you'll see that your output above had some internal truncation of columns, e.g. of package names - in the future, if you see a command's output doing this, you can improve this by expanding the terminal window as large as you can before running the command.

Anyway, that looks great.

Next, let's see what you have installed in Wine. There are different ways of doing this, but given you've experienced problems with the GUI, we'll use the command line:

Code:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/uninstaller.exe

This opens a Windows uninstaller. Can you note which packages you have installed, including their version number, and note those here. Leave that uninstall window open for the moment.

GardenGuy42 · 09-25-2018, 02:56 PM

Sorry for the delay, doctor's appointment today.

The uninstaller reports:
Notepad++(32-bit x86) ver. 7.5.4 and Wine Gecko (32-bit) ver. 2.47

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 02:59 PM

Great, thanks. Do you have the Kindle 1.17 installer downloaded from https://filehippo.com/download_kindle_for_pc/69970/?

GardenGuy42 · 09-25-2018, 03:16 PM

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 03:21 PM

Great. Right click on it and select Open With->Wine Windows Program Loader (it may take a little while to open).

Carry on with the installation - if Wine says that it needs to download extra files, let it.

Once you get to the "Register Kindle" window, you can just close this or try signing in (I don't use Kindle so I haven't tried signing on). As you can register afterwards, perhaps the best bet is just to close that window for now.

When the installation is finished, you should have a Kindle shortcut on your desktop and in the Mint menu.

GardenGuy42 · 09-25-2018, 03:52 PM

When I "Right click on it and select Open With->Wine Windows Program Loader" the program says "Please wait will setup is unpacking data" and never goes any further. I waited 10+ minutes without results. It unpacks data but never installs Kindle, at least not with my installation of Linux Mint 18.3.

hydrurga · 09-25-2018, 04:01 PM

Have you tried minimising various open windows to see if the installer window is hidden underneath?

Are you running low on RAM or disk space?

When the unpacking gets to 100% do you see a Kindle window flash up very quickly?

It works on my Mint 19 installation (in a VirtualBox VM), and we're running the same version of Wine.

GardenGuy42 · 09-26-2018, 02:35 PM

Sorry for the delay, never saw the message come in, finally decided to just check for a new one and there it was.

Yes I have minimized all the other screens, I have even made sure only needed screens were on shutting down all unneeded screens. Plenty of RAM. When unpacking is completed the box disappears. No Kindle window flashes and nothing else happens on the screen. It as if I never tried to install Kindle at all.

I am in the process of making a bootable USB with Linux Mint 19 on it. I will test it on another laptop and see Kindle can be installed on it. This may take some time but I will let you know what the results are as soon as I can.

hydrurga · 09-26-2018, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GardenGuy42

Sorry for the delay, never saw the message come in, finally decided to just check for a new one and there it was.

Yes I have minimized all the other screens, I have even made sure only needed screens were on shutting down all unneeded screens. Plenty of RAM. When unpacking is completed the box disappears. No Kindle window flashes and nothing else happens on the screen. It as if I never tried to install Kindle at all.

I am in the process of making a bootable USB with Linux Mint 19 on it. I will test it on another laptop and see Kindle can be installed on it. This may take some time but I will let you know what the results are as soon as I can.

Ok, GG. Thanks for the info!

GardenGuy42 · 09-27-2018, 02:50 PM

Linux Mint 19 was successfully installed on a Toshiba Sattellite L75D-A laptop. Wine was installed with what appeared to be much more time and many more files. Had difficult downloading and installing Kindle last night; kept getting "Wine C++ runtime error: abnormal program termination" message, but this morning everything went well and Kindle is working with only a few minor hiccups. (another issue altogether).

At this point I want to install Mint 19 on the Dell computer, but want to double check first. I assume I should back up ANY AND ALL date first to be reinstalled AFTER Mint 19 is installed, correct?

I used previous instructions to install Wine and Kindle and came across this, something I didn't pick up on the first (few) time I ran it (see message #39). Is "deb" a missing command?

Code:

deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main
No command 'deb' found, did you mean:
 Command 'debc' from package 'devscripts' (main)
 Command 'debi' from package 'devscripts' (main)
 Command 'derb' from package 'icu-devtools' (main)
 Command 'dex' from package 'dex' (universe)
 Command 'dab' from package 'bsdgames' (universe)
 Command 'xdeb' from package 'xdeb' (universe)
 Command 'dub' from package 'dub' (universe)
 Command 'deb3' from package 'quilt' (universe)
deb: command not found

hydrurga · 09-27-2018, 02:53 PM

deb isn't a command. That is a data line in your software source file specifying a repository. It was never meant to be executed.

Are you intending on doing a fresh Mint 19 install or an in-situ upgrade (I recommend the former)?

GardenGuy42 · 09-27-2018, 03:04 PM

Fresh