unable to download packages

[carlos]

Hi i'm a new linux user and i chose kubuntu 7.04

Installation went ok but now that i try to get wine from adept manager a message in red appears when i press the request install button 'break (install)

and when i use the terminal sudo apt-get install wine this appears

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: binfmt-support (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

what should i do?

[claydoh]

Re: unable to download packages

first, have you fetched updates (in adept) or urn 'sudo apt-get update' to refresh the package list?

There a few possibilities here:
one, there is a misconfiguration in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Second, there could be a problem with the country-specific repositories you use.

if fetching updates does not work, try posting the contents of your sources.list file. and we will see if there is a problem there.

[carlos]

Re: unable to download packages

i fetched updates on adept and it worked i installed 6 packages with no problems.... i selected adept to display the main and restricted repositories and seems that i can download everything in those repositories. However wine doesn't appear for download....

i wrote this on terminal cat /etc/apt/sources.list and here is the answer...
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.


## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted univ erse multiverse
# deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

my goal is to install wine .... do i need to add new repositories?

[claydoh]

Re: unable to download packages

Nope, you just need to enable a couple of the ones already there. You can use Adept for this:
Open Adept, click on Adept, then 'Manage Repositories'. In the Kubuntu Software tab, make sure all the boxes are checked (you can de-select source packages if you wish), then Fetch Updates (it will prompt you for this anyway), then you can install wine

Wine is in the Universe repository, which is not enabled by default. More info on that is here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components

[carlos]

Re: unable to download packages

lol i don't know why i couldn't download it before... 'break(install)' on red appeared before and now 'install' on green appears. I'll have to read some more...The good thing is wine is installed now. Thank you very much for your time and patience and knowledge man