On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:39 PM The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> (Is there a reason you replied off-list? This sort of thing is generally > better handled in public, so that others can chime in if they have > something to contribute.) > Sorry, user error. (It does seem *really* odd to be getting Debian packages from an > OpenSUSE repository, but I have no specific reason to expect them to be > a problem.) > I don't disagree. ...that looks like an unnecessarily complicated install procedure, to > me. I'm not sure what the benefit is supposed to be, vs. just installing > the wine or wine-development package from the official Debian > repositories. I certainly don't think it came from anyone on the Debian > side, nor is it something that Debian is likely to particularly support. > Right, well, I went that route hoping to get anything installed, because wine32 was failing. > What do you get if you just try > > # apt-get install wine > # apt install wine32 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 4.0-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > ? Without specifying any architecture, or bitness, or similar. > > In my experience, with just the plain official Debian repositories, this > successfully installs Wine without issues. I'll admit that it's an older > version by this point, though. > Yeah, I've never had problems before now. > The wine-development package available in stable has version 4.2-4, and > the one in testing has version 5.4-1, at least as of a few days ago or > so. For myself, I run the latter, when I need to run Wine. > I don't necessarily need a newer version of wine, I just need anything, and that's what I'm not getting currently, because nothing is installing. -- Dale Harris rod...@maybe.org rod...@gmail.com /.-)
