Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the new UK Computing GCSE any better for FOSS?

2015-01-27 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/15 19:25, oli_kester wrote: >> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:17:05 + From: Barry Titterton >> To: "Talk, UK" >> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Is the new UK >> Computing GCSE any better for FOSS? Message-ID: >> <54bfdf11.8070...@gmail.com> Content-T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the new UK Computing GCSE any better for FOSS?

2015-01-27 Thread oli_kester
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:17:05 + > From: Barry Titterton > To: "Talk, UK" > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Is the new UK Computing GCSE any better for FOSS? > Message-ID: <54bfdf11.8070...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi All, > > Do any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2015 at 17:24, Barry Drake wrote: > On 27/01/15 17:14, Colin Law wrote: >> >> I might suggest that high horses are out of order when complaining about >> problems in an alpha release :) Colin > > > Oops! I hadn't realised I was giving that impression. Apologies to anyone > for my o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/01/15 17:14, Colin Law wrote: I might suggest that high horses are out of order when complaining about problems in an alpha release :) Colin Oops! I hadn't realised I was giving that impression. Apologies to anyone for my own misunderstanding. :( Regards,Barry. -- ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2015 at 15:51, Barry Drake wrote: > On 27/01/15 14:54, Colin Law wrote: >> >> In the working mint and the non-working ubuntu what do apt-cache policy >> wine and apt-cache policy wine1.6 and which msiexec show? Colin > > > I think you've got it Colin. The packages appeared to be the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/01/15 14:54, Colin Law wrote: In the working mint and the non-working ubuntu what do apt-cache policy wine and apt-cache policy wine1.6 and which msiexec show? Colin I think you've got it Colin. The packages appeared to be the same, I hadn't spotted the '4' and the '6' after 'ubuntu' i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2015 at 13:47, Barry Drake wrote: > On 27/01/15 12:42, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >> >> you mentioned earlier in the thread that you successfully ran the >> installation on an copy of mint using the same ubuntu packages. Was that >> possibly using a different .wine directory? Have you t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/01/15 12:42, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: you mentioned earlier in the thread that you successfully ran the installation on an copy of mint using the same ubuntu packages. Was that possibly using a different .wine directory? Have you tried against an entirely virgin .wine directory Tried eve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/2015 12:20, Barry Drake wrote: > On 27/01/15 11:53, Colin Law wrote: >> I see from the bug report that you have used the command wine >> msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi What happens if >> you just use msiexec -i ActivePython-2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2015 at 12:20, Barry Drake wrote: > On 27/01/15 11:53, Colin Law wrote: >> >> I see from the bug report that you have used the command wine msiexec -i >> ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi What happens if you just use msiexec -i >> ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi Colin > > Exact

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 27/01/15 11:53, Colin Law wrote: I see from the bug report that you have used the command wine msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi What happens if you just use msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi Colin Exactly the same happens. I think msiexec is becoming obsolete now.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2015 at 11:45, Barry Drake wrote: > On 20/01/15 10:50, Barry Drake wrote: >> >> Hi there Some time ago, I mentioned that I could not install .msi >> files using wine. > > > I've reported this as a wine bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414995 > > Please, please would som

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

2015-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/01/15 10:50, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Some time ago, I mentioned that I could not install .msi files using wine. I've reported this as a wine bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414995 Please, please would somebody take five minutes to repeat and confirm this bug. If you