Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 12:43:11 UTC 2014


On 12 September 2014 13:24, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 12/09/14 12:41, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 12 September 2014 11:19, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>>>...
>>> 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 itÅ› outside my knowledge.
> Joep

That appears to say that is there ok available to be installed, I
wonder why it does not get installed.  Try to install it explicitly
sudo apt-get install wine1.6-i386

Colin




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