Problem Downloading packages for Ubuntu 6.06

NoOp glgxg at mfire.com
Fri Sep 1 21:50:51 UTC 2006


NoOp wrote:

> 
> Remove any wine.budgetdedicated.co repositories from your repositories
> list. Then try again and hopefully it will get it from the proper Ubuntu
> repository.
> 
> If you wander over to the comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine newsgroup
> you'll find my post from this morning ("Ubuntu Dapper/Debian repository
> broken?". Here is the post:
> 
>> I attempted to intall Wine per the instructions at:
>> 
>> http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb
>> 
>> However, I found that the repository mentioned on that page:
>> For Ubuntu Dapper (6.06):
>> deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
>> points to a 1.3K file:
>> 
>> http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/
>> Index of /apt/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386
>> Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description[DIR]
>> Parent Directory                             -
>> [   ] Packages                25-Aug-2006 08:11  4.0K
>> [   ] Packages.gz             25-Aug-2006 08:11  1.3K <===
>> [   ] Release                 07-Apr-2006 10:40  112
>> Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) Server at wine.budgetdedicated.com Port 80
>> 
>> Is there someplace else that I should be looking?
>> [Yes I know that I can install via the Ubuntu channel]
> 
> So here is what I ended up doing:
> 
> 1. Go to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/otherosfs/wine
> 
> 2. Click on "i386" in the "Download wine" section
> 
> Download wine
> Download for all available architectures Architecture	Files	Package
> Size	Installed Size
> i386 	[list of files] 	8578.6 	40460
> 
> this will download the files to a directory of your choice.
> 
> 3. Using Places|Computer (whatever) go to the directory where you
> downloaded the file (should be wine_0.9.9-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) &
> doubleclick the file to install. It will tell you that there are
> channels to install from, but just go ahead and install from your
> downloaded file.
> 
> 4. Once the file is installed you'll still need to create a .wine
> directory in your home. I've found the easiest way to do this is to go
> to the terminal and enter:
> 
>   $ wine /path/to/windoze/program.exe
> [source: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/wine ]
> 
> wine will then create the .wine directory in your home, output errors
> (that can be ignored) & from there on you should be set.
> 
> 
> 

Sorry, forgot to add that if you want to get the latest (9.20 vs 9.9)
you can get it from here:

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/pool/main/w/wine/
  select the 8.5M file, its URL is:
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/pool/main/w/wine/wine_0.9.20~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1_i386.deb
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