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install Wine on Ubuntu Karmic Koala

Asked by rapper

Second go – the first attempt seems to have gone to cyber heaven.

I hope this is a quickie - I am a newbie at Linux and after a fair bit of help from Tom I have it successfully installed, dual booting with Vista.

I have had a bit of a wander around and now am at stage 2. I want to run a windows VB6 executable program. I understand that I have to install "Wine", and I have attempted to do this thru the Wine hq site without success. I got as far as system>admin>software sources>other software and entering the APT line, (which I tried in several ways following various help answers to others) only for it to fail the reloading for file number 5 onwards every time.

So I then discovered another answer suggesting the Synaptic Paackage Manager,
I found Wine, and it requested “ttf- symbol replacement” and “ttf tahoma replacement” both of which I found and “apply” 'd. On the next try to apply “Wine” (and any other level of “wine” I got the following error message. :-

wine1.2:

 Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable

 Depends: libmpg123-0 (>=1.6.2) but it is not installable

 Depends: libopenal1 but it is not installable

 Recommends: ttf-liberation but it is not installable

 Recommends: winbind but it is not installable

 Recommends: wine1.2-gecko but it is not installable

 Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not installable

Can anyone tell me what I can do with that lot?

There must be a clear set of instructions somewhere for the benefits of us mentally retarded yokels.

Can someone throw a life-line please?

rapper

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you add the wine ppa?

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applecache(Nolan King) (nolanking) said : 		#2

Hi

First lets make it clear that when installing any software in synaptic just double click on it. There is no need to go and search for stuff that it tells you ie it does it automatically.

So go to system >>administration >> synaptic package manager and type wine in the search bar. Right click on wine if it has a green block next to it and select mark for complete removal. Restart as i dont know how finicky your system is.

Once restarted go back into synaptic package manager and search for wine and double click on it. Up pops a window say what is going to be installed. Click ok and then click apply. It will then tell the details of the installation.

Then bazingaar!

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rapper (rap-spin) said : 		#3

Hi Applecahe,

TY for your answer and time, but unfortunately doing what you suggested just gave the same error list as previously, the same 3 dependencies and the same 4 recommended installs all get listed as uninstallable.

Is it possible that I have to create a folder (or whatever linux calls one) somewhere first?

Is it possible that the install is trying to put the above seven files(?) in some protected spot that I have to unprotect somehow first?

Does karmic koala have something as part of the original installation that is blocking off part of the memory that the above seven installs also needs?

is it possible that the original allocation of 5.8 GB (ext3) for linuUbuntu and 4.8 GB swap space is not sufficient?

:(

rapper

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rapper (rap-spin) said : 		#4

I have got past this problem.

I changed the download server and Wine installed as simple as

TY all for your suggestions

rapper