upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Nils Kassube]

J.L. Blom wrote:
> 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

Colin has already answered the question, but just in case you are 
waiting for my own reply: I can confirm what Colin wrote. The package 
manager doesn't care about the contents of user data and only handles 
system files. That's why in this case your user data are safe. And in 
other cases people are surprised that reinstalling packages don't help 
to overcome problems with user config files. But I digress ...
If you purge a package, all those system config files of that package 
will be removed and after removing the system files, the package entry 
is removed from the package database. Then there should be no reason 
left why there could be a conflict IMHO. If you then try to install 
wine, I would suggest to use apt-get and not synaptic. That way it would 
be easier to copy error messages and post them here.


Nils