Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[J.L. Blom]

On 12/09/14 12:07, Colin Law wrote:
> On 12 September 2014 10:48, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>> I decided to start a new subject as otherwise the thread is too long.
>> I have made progress, mostly by reinstalling some packages.
>> However, my main problem is still there. I cannot download wine as the
>> system still says:
>> -----------------------------------------
>>   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.
>> ----------------------------------------
>> I´ve followed all advices also Nils who advised me to purge the system but
>> to no avail.
>> I tried to use synaptic but that did - in a different way - the same.
>> I used ubuntu tweak to remove all cruft but still it complains that I have
>> broken packages. My problem is also that the term ¨broken packages¨ is
>> rather vague. It can mean all things from unavailable libraries to
>> incorrectly downloaded parts.
>> My logwatch showed all packages removed and purged and there was only one
>> package related to wine (wine1.6-i386:i386 1:1.6.1-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1)
>> but that had no effect as you can see.
>> The only option I have is to install from the official wine-site directly
>> but I´m reluctant to do that as I don’t know what problems it can give. When
>> I try to install with synaptic wine1.7 want to remove all sorts of other
>> packages, a.o. dolphon, gimp, gnome-shell, imagemagick, libreoffice,
>> nvidia-libopencl1-304, etc. and install all kind of i386 libraries and
>> packages. I don´t think I should do that as I need the packages like
>> libreoffice daily.
>> The only advantage is that it didn’t give the broken packages but that
>> appears when I try to install it.
>> I think I tried all possibilities I know of and would very much like to know
>> how to solve this problem. I have installed other packages but that went
>> smoothly
>> As to backup: I use backuppc on a daily bas so /home and /etc are saved.
>> Joep
> I keep asking, and you keep not telling us, what happens if you do
> sudo apt-get install wine1.6
>
> The logic behind that is that wine needs wine1.6 but it is not going
> to install it.  We need to find out why.
>
> Colin
>
>
>
Colin,
Thanks for your patience and tenacity! . The following happens:
sudo apt-get install wine1.6
[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:
  wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

Joep