Wine was partially uninstalled. Now I can reinstall it or totally remove it. Always package fails to install.

Asked by Obide

Binary package hint: wine1.2

I installed Wine right after I installed Ubuntu 9.10 after trying it I didn't like it and I am trying to clean my machine but can't. I removed the folder .wine manually but still menu is there. I am trying to reinstall it again now to be able to remove it gracefully but installation fails. A "package installation failed" message is generated everytime I try. I need your help.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 2 11:58:32 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: wine1.2 1.1.31-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic-pae
SourcePackage: wine1.2
Title: package wine1.2 1.1.31-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae i686

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Obide (xyzperson) said :
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Mitch Towner (kermiac) said :
#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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Mitch Towner (kermiac) said :
#3

Hi. I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue. Hopefully the following will help to rectify the situation for you.
Please try to uninstall the following packages individually (one at a time) as allowed:
wine
wine-gecko
wine1.2
wine1.2-gecko

This can be done either by selecting these packages in Synaptic Package Manager & selecting "Mark for complete removal" or by performing the following commands from a terminal window (Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal).
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine-gecko
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine1.2
sudo apt-get remove --purge wine1.2-gecko

Hope this helps to resolve your issue :)
Kind Regards,
Mitch Towner.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

after the above command can you give the output of:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Thanks

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Obide (xyzperson) said :
#5

sudo apt-get update:
[INFO - 02.Mar.10 21:48:19]: Heartbeat URL: http://c4eb-ssl.watson.ibm.com/yum/config.php?architecture=i686&localname=openclient&localrelease=ocdc&distribution=Ubuntu&release=karmic&manufacturer=LENOVO&product=4061AD5&serial=R8HTDP5&lid=20100218084153_f033tzs1qgghs3gehsyk6ywb6b&uid=MOBIDE%40eg.ibm.com&site=generic&cds=no
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Get:2 http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe/ibm-core Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates Release
Ign http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe/karmic Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe Release [56.0kB]
Ign http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe Release
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/restricted Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe/ibm-core Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Packages
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ocdc.hursley.ibm.com safe/karmic Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/multiverse Sources

sudo apt-get upgrade:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#6

Looks great, all is square and your packages are solid.

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