Failed installation of Wine and e-Sword.

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 25 January 2010 11:03:07 am Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 02:35 PM, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Dar Steven,
> 
> forget about the kmenu entry.
> just try this
> sudo apt-get install wine
> 
> Then as a next step, you should use this as user steven
> winecfg
I do not understand what you mean here.  Here is what I did:  I opened winecfg 
and clicked on Add application>double-clicked on users and got a steven 
folder>I double-clicked on the steven folder and it opened /home/steven.  At 
that point I could not see anything to do.
> 
> Go through the menue and adjust to your taste. This is
> mostly just to be on the safe side, since you can usually
> leave anything as it is.  
If this is wincfg selections, I did that already.  Strangely enough, I thought 
I installed wine1.2, but in 'About' it indicated that I have the correct wine 
installation wine1.1.37.  Strange.
> 
> Lastly go with the commandline to where your e-sword
> executable is located and try this
> wine nameofeswordexecutable
The e-Sword executable is a part of the e-Sword installer, but when I attempt 
to install, I get the error message that I have already mentioned, I think 
twice.
> 
> where you change "nameofeswordexecutable" to the name of the
> application that you want to install.
I conducted all of the steps that are below before I did the steps that are 
interspersed with your comments.  As it stands now, I believe Wine1.1.37 is 
properly installed and the proper dlls have been added.

I am stopping here.  I am inclined to want to delete the e-Sword installer and 
re-install, however, I am not sure that is the proper approach for removal of 
the installer.  It is located in my Desktop folder.
> 
> Then report back, what happens.
To give an accurate report, I could not lean out the comments any more than 
they are.  Sorry for the windy reply.

Steven
> 
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > Steven
> 
Dear Eberhard, 

The problem with the instruction is that for my particular hardware and 
Operating System, the only Wine application that will install e-Sword is the 
Wine 1.1.37 version.  So if I just install as per your instruction, I will not 
be able to get a working e-Sword, which is my only reason for having Wine in 
the first place.

I have installed it successfully before; I really do not understand what the 
glitch was in the installation that caused it to freeze at the 97% point.  But 
now that that has happened, I believe I have an unusual problem, which you did 
not address.  When I open the Kmenu, there is an entry for Wine and the 
various internal applications that are a part of Wine.  That suggests that 
Wine is installed.  But when I try to apply the Wine application, the computer 
says that Wine is not installed.

First, can I install Wine when the icons that indicate the various 
capabilities are already in the computer; or do I have to remove those 
features prior to installation?

Secondly, if the wine version that I must install for e-Sword to work is Wine 
1.1.37, can I install it by typing the command:  sudo apt-get install 
wine1.1.37; the experimental version of Wine is a critical decision.  Without 
it, I cannot have my e-Sword program.

When I attempted the above code, the computer said it could not find 
wine1.1.37.  I am reasonably confident that I can install the stable version, 
but that defeats my purpose, for the only reason to have wine installed is to 
use the e-Sword program.  That is the most important application for my 
computer.  It supersedes everything else.

I will try it, just to see if it works, however, if e-Sword can not be 
successfully installed, I will have to remove it later.

The following is the process I attempted.  I was stopped from installing even 
when I used your suggestion, and the unmet dependencies were not mentioned 
as they usually are.  If they had been mentioned, I would have attempted to 
find and install them to resolve the missing packages.  Here it is:

steven at Yeshua:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.1.37
[sudo] password for steven:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package wine1.1.37
steven at Yeshua:~$ 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
steven at Yeshua:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
steven at Yeshua:~$

I just installed wine1.2, I believe.  Here is the result.

steven at Yeshua:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
wine1.2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
steven at Yeshua:~$

I am confused; did sudo dpkg --configure -a install wine1.2?  Is wine1.2 a more 
recent version, and by its even number a stable version which contains the 
necessary dependencies?  I am confused, it said missing dependencies (plural) 
and I think I only installed wine1.2.

Following installation of dll requirements, I installed and set to native 
riched20.dll and oleaut32.dll.  I attempted installation of e-Sword using the 
e-Sword installer and failed with the following error message:  Package:  e-
sword-installer  Status;  Error:  Cannot install 'wine'