On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >> What do you get if you just try
> >>
> >> # apt-get install wine
> >
> > # apt install wine32
>
The application I need to run requires the 32 bit version of wine, so if I
can't get this installed, this will all become rather academic. But I can
install wine. Really it just seems like the system doesn't like the i386
foreign arch, for some reason.
> What (if anything) do you get from the following commands?
>
> $ apt-mark showhold
>
Nothing.
> $ grep wine /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.d/*
>
grep: /etc/apt/preferences: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/apt/preferences.d/*: No such file or directory
> What does the following command report?
>
> $ apt-cache policy wine wine32 wine64 libwine
>
wine:
Installed: 4.0-2
Candidate: 4.0-2
Version table:
*** 4.0-2 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
wine32:i386:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.0-2
Version table:
4.0-2 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main i386 Packages
wine64:
Installed: 4.0-2
Candidate: 4.0-2
Version table:
*** 4.0-2 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libwine:
Installed: 4.0-2
Candidate: 4.0-2
Version table:
*** 4.0-2 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> That you don't need newer than what's in stable is good, because the
> failure of any such packages to install is something we can probably
> troubleshoot and get fixed. It might take a bit of working at, but this
> sort of thing is resolved all of the time.
>
Let's hope.
--
Dale Harris
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