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Problems in Installing wine in Ubuntu 12.04

Asked by Julianloui

When I use the following commands to install wine, Linux proceeds nicely until it gets to the second command, where it fails to respond to the copyright-acknowlegement answer from the user and just halts there indefinitely.

(1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

(2) sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Julianloui

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Best Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#1

You have to respond yourself. If it is the text based version, press the Tab key to mark the right button and hit Enter.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Why are you adding the PPA? Wine is in the official repos.....

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#3

I am trying to install the PPA for two reasons. The 1.7 PPA version is newer and when I tried to install the default one in Ubuntu 12.04, I came across several system errors.

Julianloui

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Is the application you are attempting to get running known to run better in 1.7?

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#5

HI, Thomas and Andrew,

I just succeeded in installing wine 1.7 using Tom's suggestion. So far I seem able to open one of my Widows XP apps. Many thanks again.

Julianloui

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#6

Thanks Thomas Krüger, that solved my question.

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Julianloui (julianloui) said : 		#7

Andrew,

I can answer your question only after I've been using it for some time. At least now I've something to use immediately. Since I am new to wine, anything goes at the beginning so long as it does not require too much work to get going. I'll report back when I encounter problems with 1.7. Thanks again for your help and interest in this matter.

Julianloui