The wine1.7 PPA packages conflict properly now, which should be enough unless you have very stale PPA packages, upgrade to trusty, and then don't reenable the PPA.
** Changed in: wine1.6 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1291668 Title: Apt installs wine1.6 without its binaries when wine1.7 was on the system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1291668/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs