Failed installation of Wine and e-Sword.

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 25 January 2010 08:35:35 am Steven Vollom wrote:
> My OS is Kubuntu Karmic.  I have an AMD quad core 9600 processor with 4gb
>  of SDRAM.  I attempted installation of e-Sword and failed.
> 
> As per instructions,

Instructions from where?

> I installed the Wine 1.1.37 version.

From where, or how did you do this?

> When attempting
>  the installation of e-Sword, the computer froze at 97% of the
>  installation.  It required a re-boot to continue.
> 
> After booting, I confirmed that Wine was installed by looking in Kmenu
> Applications, then attempted installing e-Sword again using the e-Sword
> installer.  The application failed with the following error message: 
>  Package: e-sword-installer,  Status:  Error:  Cannot install 'wine'.

The actual e-sword windows installer, or some other installer that helps 
install wine and some windows apps for linux? 

> 
> I attempted to repair any broken package by using the command, "sudo dpkg
>  -- configure -a".  It appeared to work, because I was returned to my
>  command line prompt, steven at Yeshua:~$.  I was not successful it repairing
>  any broken package though, if that was the appropriate command.
> 
> Using the Wine uninstaller,

Wine uninstaller? What is that and how do you get to it?
If you are using some wine helper app or script to install windows programs, I 
have found these are often flaky if they even work at all.

The easiest thing to do is to install wine directly from the repos, using apt-
get or whatever, then delete the hidden .wine folder from  your home directory 
(to clean out any mangled wine configuration data), then  download the esword 
installer directly from esword, and try simply double-clicking that.

In my opinion, if that does not work all by itself, then you are either going 
to have to do far too much work to get it running, or it simply won't easily  
run at all.

> I attempted to remove Wine, thinking that
>  perhaps it had installed improperly.  I was unsuccessful.
> 
> I used the command:  sudo apt-get remove wine, and got the following:
> 
> steven at Yeshua:~$ sudo apt-get remove 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.
> steven at Yeshua:~$
> 
> This is confusing, because when I open Kmenu, it shows that Wine is an
> installed application.

Often wine leaves these menu entries behind, so  you did remove wine.

> I do not know what to do now.  I have read everything posted in the forums
> about Wine and e-Sword, without success.
> 
> My instinct is that I must purge Wine, even though command line says it is
>  not installed, since it still shows on the menu of applications as
>  installed. Thank you for any useful instructions.
> 
> If purge is required, please advise appropriate wording for a command line
> purging of unwanted packages and dependencies, and what my next step should
> be.
> 

You can't purge if nothing is installed to purge

> Steven
> 

Have you tried out bibletime or xiphos ? Wine can often be a major pain in the 
butt., as you are seeing right now.

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