upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[J.L. Blom]

On 04/09/14 17:16, Colin Law wrote:
> On 4 September 2014 16:06, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>>> First you need to remove the lucid ppa (though this may not actually
>>> be the cause of the problem since the latest is the first one).  In
>>> System Settings (under the cog in top right hand corner) select
>>> Software & Updates and on the Other Software tab make sure there are
>>> no Lucid sources selected.  Then when you close I think it will ask to
>>> update the sources data.  Part of the problem may be that some stuff
>>> from those has been installed and will have to be sorted out.
>>>
>>> In at terminal
>>> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>> If there are any errors from that then post them here. If it suggests
>>> apt-get -f then do that.
>>>
>>> Finally try
>>> sudo apt-get install wine
>>> again and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>> Colin,
>> Thanks for your instructions.
>> I updated the software sources and when it started to reread the
>> repositories I got the following errors:
>> ______________________________
>> W:Failed to fetch
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
>> , W:Failed to fetch
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/mscore-stable/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
>> , W:Failed to fetch
>> http://www.wviewweather.com/apt/precise/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
>> , W:Failed to fetch
>> http://www.wviewweather.com/apt/precise/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
>> 404  Not Found
>> _________________________________
>> So apparently those are´nt available.
>> Logically sudo apt-get update gave the same errors.
>> apt-cache policy wine gave:
>>
>> joep at laguna:/$ apt-cache policy wine
>> wine:
>>    Installed: (none)
>>    Candidate: 1:1.7.25-0ubuntu1~ppa4
>>    Version table:
>>       1:1.7.25-0ubuntu1~ppa4 0
>>          500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main
>> amd64 Packages
>>       1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
>>          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64
>> Packages
>> joep at laguna:/$
>> But sudo apt-get install wine gave:
>> 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: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or
>>                   wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> I have used synaptic where you can repair broken packages but that does´nt
>> do much.
> Did you do
> sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> If so then in Synaptic search for wine, with Installed selected on the
> left hand side and see if anything installed.  Uninstall it if so and
> do the autoremove again, then try install again.
>
> Otherwise what does
> apt-get policy wine1.6
> show, and if that looks ok what happens if you try to install wine1.6?
>
Colin,
I tried the sudo apt-CACHE policy wine 1.6 and I get:
joep at laguna:/$ apt-cache policy wine1.6
wine1.6:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4
   Version table:
      1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
         500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 
Packages
      1:1.6.1-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1 0
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Of course I did the autoremove but all to no avail. I remains 
complaining about broken packages.
I tried:
joep at laguna:/$ sudo dpkg --remove -force --force-remove-reinstreq wine1.6
A command I found in an ubuntu-forum but I got the following result:
dpkg: error: conflicting actions -f (--field) and -r (--remove)

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Surely there is something completely wrong but I cannot find the exact 
cause.
You have ideas?