upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[J.L. Blom]

On 05/09/14 20:15, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 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
>
>
Nils,
Thanks!
I was busy with other problems -as the update gives a lot of problems 
and I had other things to attend to - but the problem remains the same. 
It won install wine
(Her is the response of apt-get install wine):
sudo apt-get install wine
[sudo] password for joep:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or
                  wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

First, I don know how to resolve the broken packages as synaptic won´t 
do it (it says broken packages are repaired). Secondly I haven´t found 
any wine1.6 or wine1.7 packages. Of course there are wine-related 
directories in my home-directory but that should´nt have any effect and 
U need wine. Of course I can use vmware and XP but I want to avoid that 
as it is slow.
The purge, by the way went smoothly. It only does´nt want to remove 
gwibber and oss-compat and I don´t know why.
Another mysterious entry (for me) is the entry local or obsolete.
Of course I want to remove obsolete packages but local not. I can´t see 
the difference.
Hopefully not too much questions,
Joep