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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