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I just installed linux (ubuntu 7.10) last week and so far my experience is very horrible

I'm trying to install wine and i went to their website and followed their instructions then

i went to add/remove but that didnt work and it told me to go to synaptic so i went there then

i went and found the file marked it for install but it said it needed something else i marked that and it said it needed something else

am i just going to have to install these things one by one or what ne thing would be appreciated thanx

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I suggest that you use Synaptic (Ubuntu's package manager) and not try to install Wine from scratch. Just open Synaptic and search for Wine...... right-click "install" and that is it. It will install all needed other packages for you. You'll be safe, I promise!

Barney

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Or do

sudo apt-get install wine

In a terminal. I found that worked well.

yup... choose your poison! :D

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I suggest that you use Synaptic (Ubuntu's package manager) and not try to install Wine from scratch. Just open Synaptic and search for Wine...... right-click "install" and that is it. It will install all needed other packages for you. You'll be safe, I promise!

Barney

see i did that and it said i need to install binfmt-support in order to proceed so i mark that

then it says Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable

so i try to instal libaudio2 and it says more things are required it seems like its never ending

Or do

sudo apt-get install wine

In a terminal. I found that worked well.

i tried that but it would ask me for my password and it wouldnt let me type ne thing i would hit keys and nothing would happen

maybe i should just scratch linux because it seems overwhelming

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hmmm... that makes no sense. I suggest that you close the terminal, re-open it and when you get the prompt, type in

sudo apt-get install wine

as it is written here...... that is the correct way to use apt.....

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ok for some reason that worked now

but now it gave me an error saying that 'wine: Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable'

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what are you talking about, of course sudo requires a password...

its just the same password you use for the user account. however it does not require the root password.

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sudo logs each command run and in some cases has completely supplanted the superuser login for administrative tasks, most notably in Ubuntu

That is what I mean, no root password... sorry if there was some confusion.

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can i select everything in synaptic and tell it to install j/k

in my terminal its says libaudio2 but in synaptic it says libaubio2 is there ne significance

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When it asks for a password it doesn't show characters. It is like the *. Just type the password and hit enter. This confused me too.

sudo apt-get update

then try. If not I am not sure what to suggest.

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if anyone else is having trouble with getting WINE to work on UBUNTU 7.10

go to System>Administration>Software Sources then check everything under Ubuntu Software Canonical, Community, etc.

then go back to Synaptic and do search for wine and begin the install

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As a recent installer of (x)ubuntu, let me try installing wine when I get home.

But the earlier advice to not download packages from assorted websites and use apt/synaptic are spot on! (Y)

I am wondering if you somehow overwrote some package during your earlier attempts to install wine. But installing and managing apps in Linux is 100% better than Windows. I will give you my step-by-step as soon as I can, but I had wine running with no problems in my Fedora install. It installed (plus all dependencies) with one command, and it worked immediately.

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My guess is that you needed to have your additional repositories added to Synaptic and the download / installation worked fine? I'm guessing "yes" :).

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Sounds like you have wine installed? :unsure:

Anyhow, it was really simple to install wine in *buntu (at least 7.10)

mark@mark-core2:~$ sudo apt-get install wine

[sudo] password for mark:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

libsvga1 xaw3dg liballegro4.2

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

binfmt-support

The following NEW packages will be installed:

binfmt-support wine

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Need to get 33.9MB of archives.

After unpacking 106MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

binfmt-support wine

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe binfmt-support 1.2.10 [21.4kB]

Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe wine 0.9.46-0ubuntu1 [33.9MB]

Fetched 33.9MB in 1m27s (386kB/s)

Selecting previously deselected package binfmt-support.

(Reading database ... 123221 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking binfmt-support (from .../binfmt-support_1.2.10_all.deb) ...

Selecting previously deselected package wine.

Unpacking wine (from .../wine_0.9.46-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

Setting up binfmt-support (1.2.10) ...

* Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support [ OK ]

Setting up wine (0.9.46-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

mark@mark-core2:~$

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... and I just installed it via Synaptic........ it installed the wine package by itself without any dependency issues at all..... one package downloaded and installed. :blink:

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meh, I don't use wine.

Interesting to see that 0.9.46 was released in Sep 2007, six months ago.

Your point is good, and following the instructions for Ubuntu on that page (copy/paste exactly two lines), I added the winehq repo to the synaptic/aptitude sources list. And now when I update, I get the current version. (Y)

mark@mark-core2:~$ wine --version
wine-0.9.57
mark@mark-core2:~$

Thanks for the heads-up. I am sure that others (who actually plan on using wine) will find that handy.

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meh, I don't use wine.

Interesting to see that 0.9.46 was released in Sep 2007, six months ago.

Your point is good, and following the instructions for Ubuntu on that page (copy/paste exactly two lines), I added the winehq repo to the synaptic/aptitude sources list. And now when I update, I get the current version. (Y)

mark@mark-core2:~$ wine --version
wine-0.9.57
mark@mark-core2:~$

Thanks for the heads-up. I am sure that others (who actually plan on using wine) will find that handy.

Slight FYI as well, if you are handy at building from source, you can get the new releases faster by building from source, normally takes ~1-3 days before the updated .debs get online (compiling?).

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I installed wine with no problems .. with that said, I am finding very little reason to use it. There are just too many linux apps for me to have to run a windows prog. Now .. if I could just get my A/L speakers to work ....

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