upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Colin Law]

On 5 September 2014 12:00, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 05/09/14 12:33, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
> I agree! But that was the advice. I tried that also with wine1.7 but that
> also did´nt do anything. Also the ´broken package´ message was´nt resolved
> with synaptic command to remove broken packages.
> The only thing I can think of is that in some .conf file some wine1.6
> remnants are seen but how to find out which package(s) is/are broken I don
> know.

I think you have missed comments I inserted earlier in the post (I
think you have done this before).  Go back and look at my previous
email again.

Colin