upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Colin Law]

On 5 September 2014 10:59, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:

>>
>> 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.

You have not confirmed that you have done this (unless I missed it)

>>
>> 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)

See comment above first, then -
So wine1.6 is not installed (and installing wine said it would not
install it), so try installing wine1.6
sudo apt-get install wine1.6
Hopefully that will provide a clue as to what the problem is.

>   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:

I have no idea what that might have been intended to achieve, since
wine1.6 is not installed.

Colin