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Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual (Post 5748734)

How old is this installation?

Let's be certain.

Code:

cat /etc/os-release

Code:

sudo apt-cache policy wine winetricks

Code:

ls -al /var/cache/apt/archives/*wine*

outputs please.

Sounds like cruft.
The option from Shadow_7 for nuking from /var/lib/dpkg/status should enable you to install, but it's a 'hack' IMO. And may have side-effects as a result.
It's what I call the "new clear" option. I didn't name it.

Just sayin'

Habitual,

Code:

cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Ubuntu"

VERSION="14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr"

ID=ubuntu

ID_LIKE=debian

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"

VERSION_ID="14.04"

HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"

SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

Code:

apt-cache policy wine winetricks

wine:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 1:1.8.0-0ubuntu1

  Version table:

    1:1.8.0-0ubuntu1 0

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

    1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

winetricks:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 0.0+20140302-0ubuntu2

  Version table:

    0.0+20140302-0ubuntu2 0

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

    0.0+20130707~precise1~ppa1 0

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Code:

ls -al /var/cache/apt/archives/*wine*

ls: cannot access /var/cache/apt/archives/*wine*: No such file or directory

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat (Post 5748741)

Code:

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 12.04 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120423)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/

12.04 reached it's end of life in 2014-
https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

Interested to see what cat /etc/os-release reveals.

Ztcoracat,

When announcing LTS versions, Ubuntu declared these are LifeTime Support, with no end-of-life. Yes 12.04 non-LTS is dead, which I'm not on, but support on an LTS is forever! Their words not mine!

I'm on 14.04 LTS and since no LTS is stable until 18 months after release can not go to 16.04 LTS until 15 Oct this year.

Cheers!

TBNK

Quote:

Originally Posted by TBotNik (Post 5749045)

Right-

I've been running Xubuntu 16.04 (Voyager Linux)for about 6 months now and it runs great.
I thought 16.04 is currently supported until 2018.
https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

Can you post a link to having to wait till Oct 15th of this year?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TBotNik (Post 5748629)

I appreciate the commands, but you assumed I knew which package are at fault and there is nothing showing that, so till I can find them these commands are useless.

Thanks!

TBNK

Does apt-get -f install end silently? if not, "those packages".

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheEzekielProject (Post 5744594)

Have you tried to manually install either of those wine versions to see if it gives you any more info on why it won't install?

Code:

apt-get install wine1.8

can I suggest you try to 1.6 using?

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine1.6

Next round are some

Code:

dpkg --reconfigure

Who's ready? ;)
or <wait_for_it>

Code:

aptitude

Did we look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for wine.deb files?

Nuking the stanza in /var/lib/dpkg/status (or the whole enchilada) allows the OP to re-install only "new" packages?
More accurately, lose the ability to remove installed packages, IIRC.

Something like that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TBotNik (Post 5744591)

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.[/CODE]

Maybe rebuild your /etc/apt/sources.list?
http://termbin.com/sju6

When was the last time you ran

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Do they run? Any messages?

Code:

sudo apt-get install -f

most of the time is able to correct most issues.
I usually opt to any thing affirmative on the response.

Did this start when you tried to install wine1.8?

All,

Following up on all my open threads, looking to close/solve them all.

Cheers!

TBNK

All,

This related to my ongoing MySQL problem, which I fixed by upgrading to 18.04 LTS, so marking this "Solved"!

Cheers!

TBNK