Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[Colin Law]

On 14 September 2014 17:10, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 14/09/14 09:34, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> I had not noticed that comment and have come back to have another look. Of
>> course liblcms2-2 (no :i386) is the one that you have a version likely
>> installed from the wine ppa previously, and it seems likely that is causing
>> the problem. I think it might be worth while trying the latest wine ppa as
>> Nils suggested, that might just sort it all out. So assuming you would be
>> happy with the latest wine (1.7) I suggest sudo apt-add-repository
>> ppa::ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update Then try a simulated dist-upgrade
>> sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see if it suggests any problems. If it looks
>> good then run dist-upgrade without the -s. To take the ppa out again without
>> upgrading, if necessary, you can disable it in Software Sources and do the
>> update again. Colin
>
>
> Colin, Just returned home and found your mail and the one of of Samual
> Romero.
> I´ll  start answering Samuel´s and your last mail first.
> Yes I have nvidia drivers but my drivers are of the 304 series (much older).
> Looking for nvidia-opencl I only got:
> ¨update-notifier-crash-_var_crash_nvidia-opencl-icd-304.0.crash.log.1.gz¨
> which as content had the same line. I believe that was caused because the
> incorrect nvidia driver was loaded and the nouveau driver was extremely
> slow.
> So I think for the time being I won´t try this solution but can try it later
> when other measures don’t work.
> I did the upgrade, as you suggested and after showing numerous archives it
> came with:
> ...(list of archives)
> Fetched 1,334 kB in 4s (318 kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> So this looks OK . However:
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
>  Welcome to the Wine Team PPA.  Here you can get the latest available Wine
> betas for every supported version of Ubuntu.  This PPA is managed by Scott
> Ritchie and Maarten Lankhorst.
>  More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
>
> gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9gr31gqe/secring.gpg' created
> gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9gr31gqe/pubring.gpg' created
> gpg: requesting key F9CB8DB0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
> gpg: /tmp/tmp9gr31gqe/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
> gpg: key F9CB8DB0: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team" imported
> gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
> OK
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> So the ppa is loaded but apparently it won install what´s in the ppa.
>
> That´s is as far as I am now. And again looking for directions how to
> proceed.

You need to do
sudo apt-get update
after adding the repository, so it updates its database of versions in
the repos.  I did say that but had missed out an 'and' so you likely
missed it.  So you need to do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade

Colin

> Joep
>