[ale] can't install Wine

[Asher Vilensky]

None of the advice given worked.  wine sticks like a gum to the sole of the
shoe.  Yes about the non-stop w[h]ining....I'm opening a beer!!!   (while
considering reinstalling the OS or removing-recreating my account)


-- Asher


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> use your apt tools to find the locations of all files installed with wine.
> Manually delete them all. then try an reinstall.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Googling didn't help.  I can see many people with the same problem, but no
>> solution.  Tried to 'apt-get remove wine' from single user mode.  It behaved
>> as if it removed it, but it didn't.
>> So basically I'm stuck in la-la-land:  can't correct, can't remove.
>>
>> -- Asher
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for all the good advice.    A simple apt-get installed wine with
>>> no problem.
>>> Ironically, I may want to remove it.  Here's the longer story:
>>> I want wine so I can run safari.
>>> I want safari so I can connect to slingbox (they have a new, safari-only
>>> plugin).
>>>
>>> But I made a mistake while installing safari.  Now wine's software
>>> manager wouldn't remove safari (or any software, for that matter).  I tried
>>> to 'apt-get remove wine' (wanting to start afresh), but wine (and all the
>>> Apple SW installed on it) are not getting wiped.
>>>
>>> Anybody has the experience here how to either:
>>> Force remove all Apple SW from wine - or
>>> force remove wine altogether (assuming that will also remove Apple with
>>> it)????
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -- Asher
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/15/2010 12:47 PM, Asher Vilensky wrote:
>>>> > I'm trying to install Wine on my Ubuntu Netbook.  I'm getting a
>>>> network
>>>> > error, which I don't understand since I'm connected and surfing fine.
>>>>  I
>>>> > can ping 91.189.88.31 just fine.  Any idea what it might be?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Failed to fetch
>>>> >
>>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb>
>>>> > <
>>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
>>>> >
>>>> > 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>>>
>>>> trying in a browser gets this:
>>>>
>>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb>
>>>> Oops! This link appears to be broken.
>>>> Suggestions:
>>>> Go to ubuntu.­com
>>>> Go to us.­archive.­ubuntu.­com
>>>> Search us.archive.ubuntu.com for ubuntu pool main samba lib web client
>>>> 0
>>>> 7~dfsg 1 3 i386
>>>> Search on Google:
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul Cartwright
>>>> Registered Linux user # 367800
>>>> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>>>
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