Upgraded to Utopic Wine Dependency hell

[Bladeforce]

Hi,

After upgrading to 14.10 i am have lost wine during the process.
I have re-added the official wine ppa then tried:

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

to which i get:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies.
wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.28-0ubuntu2~ppa1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Now when i try to install wine1.7-i386 i get:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies.
wine1.7-i386:i386 : Depends: libldap-2.4-2:i386 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libcups2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Now i have opened synaptic and selected fix broken packages which completes without error but still no go..

Can anybody help please?

[mbohets]

Use wine 1.6, it is in the normal repos, you won't have troubles with that

[claydoh]

first try clearing up the jam if possible:

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install

[claydoh]

I just added to ppa, and installed wine1.7 with no issue

[Bladeforce]

first try clearing up the jam if possible:

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install

Tried that still no go..mark this as closed. i just went back to 14.04 thankfully i created a cloned image. Dependency hell is the worst thing about Linux

[claydoh]

Most dependency hells are those caused by the external things we add on ourselves.

Actually, I see I forgot to add the last step of running a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, which would point out the specific packages that were held back, or most likely updated the packages and package/dependency lists and thereby fixing the problem.

Sorry, I betcha we could have fixed this quicker than doing a reinstall

[Bladeforce]

To be fair i noticed during the "upgrade" it said it was automatically removing wine for whatever reason i do not know but i couldn't continue the upgrade without accepting it. Everything is rosy now back with 14.04. I also noticed the ia32libs package was removed which broke a few other programs. Definitely a no go for me

[claydoh]

To be fair i noticed during the "upgrade" it said it was automatically removing wine for whatever reason i do not know but i couldn't continue the upgrade without accepting it. Everything is rosy now back with 14.04. I also noticed the ia32libs package was removed which broke a few other programs. Definitely a no go for me

It likely removed wine because of a possible packaging error on that external repo.

As to ia32libs, that metapackage has been gone since 12.04 - it isn't necessary. You simply install the 32 bit package of whatever program, and it installs the needed libraries as if it were native. For example, one would grab the 32 bit deb for say, skype or google earth and install those. The 64 bit packages for these 32bit-only programs only existed to depend on that ia32libs thingy, which only existed to pull in the whole kitchen sink of 32 bit libraries. Now, only the ones actually needed are installed.

Wine usually pulls in the vast majority of the most-used 32 bit libs anyway.

[Bladeforce]

I use a few older programs that require those ia32libs. The Daphne emulator and epsxe emulator for example. Neither worked after the "upgrade".
As for the packaging error on the wine ppa, it got disabled before the upgrade as did all my ppa added manually. To be fair these were the only problems I had but there's nothing much new in 14.10 to warrant the upgrade anyway.
Many thanks though

Sorry, I betcha we could have fixed this quicker than doing a reinstall

Only took 15 minutes to reinstall my fully cloned backup image