[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2008-04-28 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Mmh actually you'd better not use a bug tracker for that kind of questions, it's designed to work fixing issues. If you want, send me a direct email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I'd be pleased to answer you what I know :) . -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You receive

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2008-04-27 Thread joshkahn
Thank you! I'll try to enjoy it. Do you have a recommendation for a desktop machine or another laptop that runs ubuntu? i'm in south america and going to sell my cloudbook in peru because i can get a good price and i won't need it anymore. then i can buy a desktop for my new place and i'd want

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2008-04-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Wow! I'm very glad (and surprised) that it helped so much people :) . I think that ubuntu repositories are disabled when the computer is installed without Internet access, that might be why so many people get this kind of issue... Well thank you for the thank you :) Enjoy Open source too! -- Cann

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2008-04-21 Thread joshkahn
Thank you s much. I followed this whole thread and was getting the same error messages as well. I didn't know what to do. Everex help was no help except they gave me this link and now it's fixed thanks to you. All I had to do was check the correct repositories and reload them and then it let

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-18 Thread Lolkereltje
Wow thanks indeed! You helped me too :D I was reading all the comments on this page, and the last to-do helped me! Thanks again! -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug cont

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
I'm glad it helped you :) I plan to open a website with such helping informations. Also thanks for your comment on the bug report. I set it to invalid has it finally wasn't a bug but feel free to post any other bug you might find! Welcome to OpenSource software ! ** Changed in: ubuntu St

Re: [Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Greg Linden
Wow! It worked like a dream and I got my first Windows app running on Ubuntu. I can't thank you enough for taking the time to help me. I hope your detailed directions will be of use to other newbies. Many thanks. -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You rece

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Repositories are in Ubuntu a huge server which contains thousands of programs and libraries all disposable to download and install in Ubuntu. Dependencies are all managed by synaptic in this incredible system. It makes installation of programs really easy and avoid incompatibilities or else. >From

Re: [Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Greg Linden
Saïvann : Thanks for your reply. No joy yet. I'm not sure what repositories are, but I searched on 'repos' in synaptic and all the packages that came up were active. I should explain that I'm running ubuntu in a virtual machine (Parallels on a MacBook). If there is no easy fix, I will aband

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
dgd1988 : Thanks for this information. That probably just means that the packages list wasn't up to date on your computer. It's automatically updated at each boot. I'm happy that this problem is solved for you. Thanks again and feel free to report any other bug you find. -- Cannot install Wine

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Hi Greg, I tested this again with the latest Gutsy release and didn't get to confirm the bug. binfmt-support is in 1.1.10 version and the dependencies specify >=1.1.2 so it seems all OK here. Can you look if you have all Ubuntu repositories checked in Synaptic? Most of time, this kind of problem c

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread dgd1988
Yes I did. Sorry for not responding. All I did was restart my laptop and it fixed everything. Bug cleared then. -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-11-03 Thread Greg Linden
Did this ever get resoloved? I'm having the same problem in Ubuntu 7.10. Synaptic tells me wine has unresolvable dependencies, but it does not recognize the file as "Broken" (perhaps because it was never installed?). The uninstallable parts are binfmt-support (>=1.1.2) and libaudio2. Any guidan

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-21 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Can you try to install wine through Synaptic? Synaptic will show you which package must be removed before installing wine and should be able to fix that situation. If you can give me more information about which package synaptic need to remove, I would greatly appreaciate! Thanks to take time to

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-21 Thread dgd1988
I went into Synaptic Package Manager to ->Edit -> Fix broken packages. It said it successfully fixed them, but then I go back to Add/Remove Applications to install Wine and this comes up: Cannot install 'wine' This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'wine' the conflic

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-20 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Mmh dgd1988 : Did you look correctly for Broken packages in synaptic? It clearly says here that there's a broken package which should appear in synaptic if you follow the instruction that I gave you in my first post. You can also try this : start Synaptic, go to Edit, and select "Fix broken packa

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-19 Thread dgd1988
Here's what I got while doing that. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install wine [sudo] password for david: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administ

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Ok, I will give you the instruction how to do this with synaptic : You can open synaptic from a terminal by typing : gksu synaptic ( or by opening synaptic into the System / Administration menu ) Click on Settings / repositories and choose the "Third-Party Software" Tab. You shouldn't have Wine

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-19 Thread dgd1988
Umm, I am unsure how to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list thing. But I do know how to install from the terminal. -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-19 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Interesting! Can-you try to reinstall Wine from the Universe repository? ( Remove the official wine repositories from your /etc/apt/sources.list file ) and do : sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine Thanks for your help on this. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Invalid => Incomplete

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-19 Thread dgd1988
I went into Synaptic package manager and didn't find any broken packages. -- Cannot install Wine Emulator https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bu

[Bug 154161] Re: Cannot install Wine Emulator

2007-10-18 Thread Saïvann Carignan
The problem you get here is a dependency problem. Most probably that something did hang the installation of libaudio2 like a sudden reboot. You may fix this dependency problem by accessing System / Administration / Synaptic Click on Custom Filters ( at the left of the window ) and click on Broken