Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[Colin Law]

On 12 September 2014 11:19, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> 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

We have to follow the chain down then.  What about
apt-cache policy wine1.6-i386

Colin