Failed installation of Wine and e-Sword.

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 25 January 2010 11:06:16 am Clay Weber wrote:
> 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?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=372359&page=20  David, one of 
our members created this application and it usually works beautifully, so I am 
not sure how the glitch formed.
> 
> > I installed the Wine 1.1.37 version.
http://www.winehq.org/download/deb  I followed instruction from here.
ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa  then added to KpackageKit>updated and clicked on install 
for the wine installation, the first time.  I installed again after hearing 
from Eberhard; this time Wine installed properly with ver. wine1.1.37.
> 
> From where, or how did you do this?
I hope I am spelling David Kundate's name correctly.  He created the e-Sword 
installer.  That is what I have been attempting to use.  I am having difficulty 
tracing my steps to the e-Sword installer, however I have in in my Desktop 
folder.  When you double-click on the installer, it usually does everything 
including provide the bible options and other related exe's.
> 
> > 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.
>