Why has wine quit working?

[Cody Smith]

I'd purge the WIne packages (won't delete your wine prefixes since those
are under your home directory) then reinstall the Wine version you want. If
you still run into issues, remove the wineprefix and start again.

--c_smith

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Thursday, April 16, 2015 08:22:37 AM A.J. Bonnema wrote:
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> > On 16-04-15 04:02, Jerry Lapham wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to run Quicken 2008 under wine on a 64bit Kubuntu 12.04
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> > > LTS, which I've been able to do until the last month or so.
>
> > >
>
> > > When I try to start it I get the following:
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> > >
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> > > jerry at JERRY-HP:~$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/jerry/.wine" wine "C:\Program
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> > > Files (x86)\Quicken\qw.exe"
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> > >
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> > > wine: failed to initialize: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version
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> > > `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by
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> > > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/ntdll.dll.so)
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> > >
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> > > How do I get wine to work?
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> >
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> > Hey Jerry,
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> >
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> > Sounds like you are missing a glibc. Check your software repo which one
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> > you have, and if you don't have it, install it.
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> >
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> > P.S. As you are running 64 bit kubuntu, remark that wine is always 32
>
> > bits and requires 32-bit programs and libraries. So the glibc implied
>
> > here should be 32-bit as well.
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>
>
> Yes, that's the problem. I'm running 12.04 and my 32-bit libc.so.6 points
> to libc-2.15.so, which is 12.04's highest version.
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>
>
> My wine version shows 1.6.2 although Synaptic and Muon show 1.4 as
> installed.
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>
>
> Quicken ran fine on wine until just a few weeks ago. It's a real pain
> having to boot Windows just to do my bookkeeping.
>
>
>
> Bottom line: How do I get either wine 1.4 or libc-2.17.so on my 12.04
> system?
>
>
>
> -Jerry
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