Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[Colin Law]

On 17 September 2014 10:57, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joep, I think, following Nils experiments which have failed to show up
> an issues, I suggest the following strategy.
> 1. Disable the ppa again in Software Sources, lets stick to standard
> Ubuntu components for the moment.
> 2. In a terminal run
> sudo apt-get update
> to update the database of packages
> 3. Try
> sudo apt-get install wine
> we expect that to say that it cannot as it needs wine1.6 or wine1.7
> 4. Try
> sudo apt-get install wine1.6
> that may say that it needs <another package>
> 5. sudo apt-get install <another package>
> make sure you get the package name right, including any :386 that may
> be on the end
> that may say the it needs <yet another package>
> 6. repeat 5, with each new package that it says it needs (just use the
> first one if there is a choice) until you get a message that says that
> the wrong version of something is installed, or that something you are
> trying to install is already installed (or any other different
> message), then post the whole sequence of commands and results here.

I hope Joep has not given up as I felt we were nearing finding the
cause of the problem.

Colin