On 27 January 2015 at 13:47, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> 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 tried against an >> entirely virgin .wine directory > > > Tried everything you suggest. Colin was spot on with his duplicate. I'd > tried looking for it but hadn't tried what he had tried. The duplicate > seems to assume the problem exists in wine. Mint, from scratch in a fresh > installation which I did yesterday uses the identical Ubuntu packages from > the Ubuntu repos. This is using 'sudo apt-get install wine' in the Mint > commandline. Same packages, identical directory structure - but one works, > the other doesn't. > > Thanks Colin. I've posted to > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1383214 giving a bit > of the story and putting in a link to #1414995
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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
