Thanks. I followed the right recipe and the carried out a fresh install of wine. Everything shows a correct installation, like
dpkg --status wine The windows application (a database) installs, though it fails to work. Like before. I have already abandoned the windows application chemsk50 as chem drawing package as there is now gchampaint. Hope to find a linux alternative to the free-form database. francesco On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 19:31:06 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> 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? >> 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*' > > [...] > > For apt-get the regular expression 'wine*' will match any package whose > name contains the string "win". You are mixing up shell globbing > patterns and regular expressions; see "man 7 regex" for the correct > regex syntax. (Moreover, things can get really messy if you have any > files in the current directory whose names start with "wine"; see the > section "Pathname Expansion" in the manpage of bash.) > > Try > > apt-get -s --purge remove 'wine.*' > > and if this shows the right output then you can run the same command > without the "-s" to actually remove and purge these packages. > > (Note: I have no idea if puring and reinstalling all those wine packages > will solve your original problem.) > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- 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]
