Problems with Wine; brandnew installation; Wine seems to be installed but is not

[dangoeslinux]

Hello,

I was fighting with my laptop for the last couple of days and I decided that I need help. I installed Kubuntu 7.10 recently and love it but I and need wine for one particular application I am using on a regular basis.

Wine seems to be installed after a new installation since the checkbox in the Adept installer is checked. If I try to run the Wine Config Tool in the System Settings or try to run a win executable (...open with wine), I get an error message that wine is not installed. ( It apprears that you have not installed wine, .... Would you like to install it??). If I select yes, I get an KDE Crash Handler...

So it seems Wine is installed somehow but it is not really.

I downloaded the deb file from winehq and installed wine manually that way. It complained about dependencies but installed it and wine worked at that time. But somehow the Adept installer got broken and I was not able to install any other applications after that. I ended up formatting the hd and reinstalling Kubuntu. But the same problem with wine is still there.

Did somebody have that problem before? Please let me know what I need to do do to get wine installed properly.

Thanks.

[gnowak]

Re: Problems with Wine; brandnew installation; Wine seems to be installed but is not

Hmm it's not easy to use to figure out the system huh...

It seems it is a bad idea to use the adept installer?

What I would do:

Fire up a terminal: alt + f2 -> xterm -> "Enter"

sudo aptitude purge wine; sudo aptitude install wine

be aware of packages dependent on wine, and remember to type you password when asked for.

Then you can run
gnowak@t40p:~$ wine --version
wine-0.9.55

and

winecfg

for wine configuration.

[dangoeslinux]

Re: Problems with Wine; brandnew installation; Wine seems to be installed but is

It worked this time. I did

sudo apt-get updates
sudo apt-install wine

and it downloaded and installed wine. I think this is what happened:
- the default Kubuntu installation comes with the wine config tool but not with wine. That confused me. I downloaded the latest wine deb file manually using another computer since my dial-up did not work in Linux yet.

- I installed the downloaded deb file and that messed up the apt installer. The dependencies got broken.

It is somewhat confusing for a newbie that wine is kinda partially installed at the beginning.

Thanks for your help.

[gnowak]

Re: Problems with Wine; brandnew installation; Wine seems to be installed but is not

I can see some people are putting a [SOLVED] or *Solved* tag in their subject when the problem is solved. Why is this tag so rare?

How to tag:
The author of the thread, must modify the first message by manually editing the subject title.

Of course.. I don't know if the author of this thread is satisfied with the answer ;-)

I think the [SOLVED] tag in the subject title would make the forum system more efficient for helping people who need help.

To all thread authors, consider using this tag. You can always start a new thread being more specific about an unanswered question, which rarely is the same as the original subject title.

Kubuntu 4 the win.

[disturbedite]

Re: Problems with Wine; brandnew installation; Wine seems to be installed but is not

ha, wine 0.9.55 is totally b0rked. see here for a discussion:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...72#post4383272