upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[J.L. Blom]

On 05/09/14 14:33, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
Colin,
You´re right. That´s because some mail is stored in my main input folder 
and some in my Ubuntu folder and some mails are erroneously stored in 
both. I think a problem in the filter settings in thunderbird as, after 
upgrading, some filters won´t work but I have´nt have time to correct that.
Joep