Frustrated by lack of functionality of installed package wine since I upgraded to i386 lenny, I purged removed all specific packages of wine and reinstalled, also my database application. Still hanging while commanding 'search'. Then I planned a more drastink purging. I first commanded apt-get --purge remove wine
Then I explored what will happen from command apt-get --purge remove wine* The output screen from this command is shown below. Clearly I did not continue as it will remove gnome parts, in particular gnome-session, which is what I use after startx. Any suggestion? Thanks francesco pietra Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Note, selecting libwine-capi for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing-data for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing3-data instead of libchewing-data Note, selecting libswing-layout-java for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting matchbox-window-manager for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-alsa for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting windows-el for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting plplot9-driver-xwin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libmono-winforms1.0-cil for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing3-data for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wxwin-i18n for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting xwatchwin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-twain for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting fte-xwindow for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-comix for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting xwininfo for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wings3d for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting x-window-system-core for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-decor-baghira for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting avifile-win32-plugin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting freepwing for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting x-window-system for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting cpio-win32 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting scim-chewing for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting windowlab for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing2-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-suse2 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting winkeydaemon for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libconfigwin-ocaml-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libcameleon-ocaml-dev instead of libconfigwin-ocaml-dev Note, selecting wine-utils for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing3 instead of libchewing Note, selecting kwin-style-knifty for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting not+darwin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting type-handling instead of not+darwin Note, selecting wininfo for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting worldwind for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-jack for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting hwinfo for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting grubutil-win32 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing3 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wxwin2.4-headers for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-crystal for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libmono-winforms2.0-cil for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting x-window-manager for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing3-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin4 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-baghira for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-ldap for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wine-bin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting avant-window-navigator for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wine-doc for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-gphoto2 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting avant-window-navigator-data for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting twinkle for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting gzip-win32 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting not+bsd-darwin for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting type-handling instead of not+bsd-darwin Note, selecting libwings-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wine for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wing for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wink for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-print for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-dekorator for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting openwince-jtag for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libgnome-window-settings1 for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kdeartwork-theme-window for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-dbg for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-cms for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-gl for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting worldwind-doc for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-esd for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libgnome-window-settings-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting wing-data for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libworldwind-java for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-powder for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libswingx-java for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-nas for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting winbind for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-oss for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting winpdb for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libswing-layout-java-doc for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting openwince-include for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libchewing1-dev for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting libwine-sane for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-baghira for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting win32-loader for regex 'wine*' Note, selecting kwin-style-serenity for regex 'wine*' The following extra packages will be installed: x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xinit xorg Suggested packages: mesa-utils pdksh The following packages will be REMOVED: alacarte* fast-user-switch-applet* gnome-applets* gnome-control-center* gnome-core* gnome-desktop-environment* gnome-panel* gnome-session* libgnome-window-settings1* libwine* libwine-alsa* libwine-cms* libwine-esd* libwine-gl* libwine-gphoto2* libwine-jack* libwine-ldap* libwine-nas* libwine-oss* libwine-print* libwine-sane* nautilus* nautilus-cd-burner* type-handling* wine-bin* wine-utils* The following NEW packages will be installed: x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xinit The following packages will be upgraded: xorg 1 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 26 to remove and 129 not upgraded. Need to get 1269kB of archives. After this operation, 75.3MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n of course On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- On Fri, 6/6/08, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: wine problems? >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: "debian-users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 2:27 PM >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Francesco Pietra >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > After having upgraded to lenny i386, the two >> applications I used with wine have problems. One (a >> chemical drawing package) does not start any more. The >> other one (a database) starts, though functionalities are >> greatly reduced and it hangs quite easily. >> > >> > Am alone having such problems? Do they depend from the >> wine version currently on i386 or from the deb packaging? I >> have purged-removed all wine and reinstalled; same >> problems. >> >> Any success yet? Have you tried removing ~/.wine and >> install that >> stuff from scratch? >> >> >> -- >> my place on the web: >> floss-and-misc.blogspot.com > > > > -- Dr Francesco Pietra Professor of Chemistry Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, founded in 1594 Palazzo Ducale 55100 Lucca (Italy) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]