Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[J.L. Blom]

On 12/09/14 12:41, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Colin,
Here is the output of that command:
joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-cache policy wine1.6-i386
[sudo] password for joep:
wine1.6-i386:i386:
   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 i386 
Packages
Maybe you can interpret that as itś outside my knowledge.
Joep


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