[fixed itself] dist-upgrade wants to remove wine1.3

[doctordruidphd]

For the last few days, any attempt to do a dist-upgrade tries to remove wine1.3, and substitute wine1.0. So I put a hold on wine1.3. So far I have not been able to figure out why. This happens whether I use the wine repository or not (deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu natty main).

I have had to put holds on wine1.3 and wine1.3gecko to do updates at all.

[claydoh]

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove wine1.3

no problems here. It sounds like a packaging bug, but what thing you have installed that is causing it to want to downgrade wine I dunno

[doctordruidphd]

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove wine1.3

Yeah, I don't get it. If I go into synaptic, it says the current version of wine1.3 is 1.3.6, and the latest available version is 1.3.17. If I mark it for upgrade, I get the following message:

To be installed:
ttf-umefont
wine1.0
wine1.0-gecko

If I tell it to go ahead and do it, I get the message:

wine1.3
Conflicts wine1.0 but 1.0.1-ubuntu14 is to be installed

Well, no it isn't, as I have no desire to downgrade. Something is messing it up somewhere, though. Still looking...



Edit: Alright, I should know by now. Whatever the problem, it's fixed itself.
That ALWAYS worries me...

[claydoh]

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove wine1.3

I don't know. You may want to try uninstalling whatever wine(s) you have installed, reload, and install wine1.3, perhaps via commandline to see if there are other useful error messages. iirc you can using the normal repos have wine1.0 and wine1.2 or whatever installed together. the ppa version may not be set up to allow that.