[Wine] Re: Problems with Wine on Debian

[Cai]

ThomasM wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am fairly new to Linux, so I hope that the following problem is not just me being ... new to Linux.
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> I have been trying to install Wine on Debian (Etch 4.09 I think it is called). I first tried to use the
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> apt-get install Wine
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> command followed by the winecfg (creating the .wine folder), but when I tried to run the notepad.exe (i.e. with the command wine /home/thomas/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe) I get the error message
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> "module not found" (error number126)
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> I tried then to follow the tutorial on the blog:
> TuxArena: Running Google Chrome Under Wine 1.1.6 in Debian (http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2008/10/running-google-chrome-under-wine-116-in.html)
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> But then "apt-get update" gives me this
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> Code:
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> debian-502:/home/thomas# sudo apt-get update
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080804-15:10] etch Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080804-15:10] etch Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080804-15:10] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080804-15:10] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B]
> Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release
> Get:2 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy Release.gpg [191B]
> Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy Release
> Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
> Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
> Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
> Hit http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Sources
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
> Ign http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
> Get:4 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages [1092B]
> 99% [4 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers]
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Get:5 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages [1092B]
> 99% [5 Packages gzip 0]
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Fetched 5B in 1s (4B/s)
> Failed to fetch http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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>
> I then tried to install wine anyway (using apt-get install wine) and I got:
>
>
> Code:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   wine: Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.14) but 1.0.13-2 is to be installed
>         Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 is to be installed
>         Depends: libgphoto2-2 (>= 2.4.0) but 2.2.1-16 is to be installed
>         Depends: libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.4.0) but 2.2.1-16 is to be installed
>         Depends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not installable
>         Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.20) but 1.1.19-3 is to be installed
>         PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.12ubuntu3) but 1.13.25 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
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> What am I to do?
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> Thomas
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I think you should install Wine from source code. It's easy and and can
avoid some dependency problems.