upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[J.L. Blom]

On 05/09/14 14:07, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
>> J.L. Blom wrote:
>>> 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 don't know if it is relevant, but if you look at the package numbers
>> above, it seems to me that the trusty repo has a newer version than
>> the precise-ppa. Therefore the ppa is not useful IMHO. Maybe there is
>> a conflict between dependencies which are available from the trusty
>> repo and the ppa. Did you try to remove the ppa from the repositories
>> list and see what happens then?
> Hmm, I think I misread the output of your command. The line
>
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> means that the package from the ppa was removed but not purged. and you
> certainly don't have the ppa in your sources.list. Maybe you should
> purge this package and others coming from the ppa. I think the easiest
> way to do it would be with synaptic. At the "Status" tab select the
> section "Not installed (residual config)". Then mark all those packages
> for complete removal and click the "Apply" button. Then try again to
> install wine.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
Nils,
Thanks for the suggestion. However, when I purge wine doe´nt it mean 
that all that´s in the wine directories get lost as well? As I surely 
don want to lose all music I´ve written that´s in the C: wine directory.
Please your advice,
Thanks in advance,
Joep