So, I'm not a developer, I know a lot about computers, but I'm more of a techy gamer than a programmer; and I like linux, so wine FTW! But with Karmic it seems that the wine package is dependent on wine1.2, which if I'm not mistaken is the dev version. Insert terminal paste here: Code: console at ConsoleMLap:~$ sudo apt-get purge wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package wine is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. console at ConsoleMLap:~$ sudo apt-get purge wine1.2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package wine1.2 is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. console at ConsoleMLap:~$ sudo apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine: Depends: wine1.2 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages console at ConsoleMLap:~$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. console at ConsoleMLap:~$ sudo apt-get install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine: Depends: wine1.2 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages console at ConsoleMLap:~$ Please to be helping in my problem!
Oh, yes you DO want the "dev" version! The "stable" version is over a year old. Since that time, the dev version fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Do yourself a favor, and stick with the dev version.
prolly should've mentioned, I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 i686
> So, I'm not a developer, I know a lot about computers, but I'm more of a techy gamer than a programmer; and I like linux, so wine FTW! > > But with Karmic it seems that the wine package is dependent on wine1.2, which if I'm not mistaken is the dev version. > > Please to be helping in my problem! > >Hi! The 1.0.1 wine is over one year old now. There aren't any newer "stable" wine versions. There is nothing special in 1.0.1, except is was a release target (something like a "milestone release") and the developers tried the best to fix maximum things, even at the cost of removing things which could cause problems (at the time of releasing wine 1.0). Current "development releases" are much more complete and some of them are stable at least as the 1.0.1, maybe even much more. Don't be afraid to get the "development release", because AFAIK, there are no plans to release a new milestone in a really near future. Regards, Pavel
console wrote:> So, I'm not a developer, I know a lot about computers, but I'm more of a techy gamer than a programmer; and I like linux, so wine FTW! > > But with Karmic it seems that the wine package is dependent on wine1.2, which if I'm not mistaken is the dev version. >It is not. However, Wine 1.2 and Wine ARE dependent on other packages being installed and the correct versions. Since that is outside the scope of this project, it is best to browse the Ubuntu forums for suggestions on how to install these packages. Now onto what seems to be your complaint: Using the Development version. The development version, with very few exceptions, is actually better than the so-called stable version. There have been 38 releases of the development version (about one every two weeks) since the stable version was released. Version 1.0.1 is basically abandonware now. If you encounter a problem with it, the group here will reply with "Install the current development version and then tell us what happens". If the stable version works, then you are welcome to use it, for now. If it is broken, it is not going to be fixed. Now for the final answer: Wine 1.2 and Wine will NOT build on your system if you try to build 64-bit versions. This bitness is NOT ready and there is work being done on making it work, but this is slow and is going to take some time. Thus you have to build the 32 bit (i386) version and all of the 32 bit dependencies to install Wine. Thank you. James Mckenzie
As a response to all of the above telling me to use the dev version, there is a very inhibiting bug with steam that I simply cannot work with, that's why I wanted 1.0.1 (can't accurately describe what it looks like, weird thing with window render boundaries) ALSO, I found a 'fix'. Apparently the "Wine depends on Wine1.2" thing only happens if you add the wine ppa (think I'm using that right), which apparently you only need to get the dev (thanks for telling me on the wine install page -_-'''). Wine (stable) is in the universe, which seems dutifully obvious to me now, and it runs without a hitch. Thanks for the help though, glad to see 'do not want' still gets this much attention on forums! And to reiterate, no, I DON'T want the dev version, I like being able to see the window to which I'm working. And as a preemptive strike to those who undoubtedly have a fix for said bug, I'm not interested in messing with config files, or compiling it myself. Thanks though.
David, this wasn't about wine 1.0.x not working, it was about the dev not working right, and me not being allowed to install the stable.