Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[Colin Law]

On 14 September 2014 22:38, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 14/09/14 18:29, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>
> Colin,
> I did that but, although there were no errors this time, it did nothing:
> Although it produce any errors this was the result:
> ___________________
> joep at laguna:~$ sudo apt-get update
> [sudo] password for joep:
> Ign http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
> ....(long list of srchives, etc)
> Reading package lists... Done
> 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.
> ______________________
> I´ve looked into the ppa lists and wine is there but for some reason or
> other it is not used to download from and there is no wine installed.

Adding the ppa makes the version of packages there available to you
but it will not automatically install anything, So now you have to try
installing wine again as NoOp suggests.

Colin