Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[J.L. Blom]

On 15/09/14 14:45, Colin Law wrote:
> That is nothing to do with the Wine problem. OK, lets start again with 
> the ppa in place. First lets have apt-cache policy wine to check that 
> it wants to pick it up from the ppa. Then apt-cache policy wine1.6 and 
> apt-cache policy wine1.7 If wine1.7 has a candidate to install from 
> the ppa then try to install it, assuming it then complains about 
> something not installed work down the chain till you find the culprit, 
> as we did before. If wine1.7 is not available then do it with 1.6. 
> Post all the results here. Colin 

Colin, Yes I know but it shows that the system is still not quite OK.
I followed your suggestions and it gave a normal result:
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wine:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 1:1.7.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1
   Version table:
      1:1.7.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ 
trusty/main amd64 Packages
      1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4 0
         500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 
Packages
wine1.6:
   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 amd64 
Packages
wine1.7:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 1:1.7.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1
   Version table:
      1:1.7.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ 
trusty/main amd64 Packages
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This looks completely normal. However when I do an apt-get install -s 
wine I get the same result as before.
I begin to get have the impression that apt-get somehow thinks there are 
broken packages but synaptic says 45649 packages listed, 3749 installed, 
0 BROKEN, 0 to install/upgrade, 0 to remove but when I want to install 
wine it comes with a long list of files to be removed and another list 
to be installed but when I want to install it it says:¨Could not apply 
changes! Fix broken packages first¨.

I think there is something deep down in the system where something has 
been corrupted during the upgrade to 14.04 and the easiest solutin will 
be to install a completely new system but is for me a long process as I 
have to consider what can safely be removed and what not. I have some 
strategies in mind nut I must find out what is the best.
On the other hand it may be something very small and incredibly stupid 
from my part.
Joep