Trying to install Wine on Ubuntu.

[rolf]

I went to the WineHQ page and followed the installation instructions exactly.
I.e. I did the thing about adding the WineHQ PPA Repository --- that seemed
to work; at least I didn't get an error message --- and then tried clicking on
the link to install wine1.4. This got me a pop-up window with a message saying
"This link needs to be opened with an application." and apparently expecting
me to "Choose" one. I have absolutely no idea what to choose.

So then I tried the link for the beta version, wine1.5. Same deal. So then I
tried the command line route:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5

I got: E: Couldn't find package wine1.5

So then I tried:

sudo apt-get install wine1.4

and got:

Package wine1.4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package wine1.4 has no installation candidate

After a bit of searching around I found a post somewhere suggesting the use
of "sudo apt-get install wine" (no numbers at the end) so I tried *that* and it
seemed to run .... but it gave me wine1.3, which is presumably a bit on the
archaic side.

Why don't things work as advertised? Is there *anything* I can do to install
wine1.4?

cheers,

Rolf Turner

[dimesio]

Sounds like you have an older version of Ubuntu. The Ubuntu package maintainer has decided to build 1.5.x packages only for 12.04. He also for some unknown reason thought it was a good idea to name the Wine 1.4.x packages for 10.04, 10.10, and 11.04 "wine1.3", so if you're using one of those versions of Ubuntu, you probably did install Wine 1.4.x. You can check the real version by typing

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wine --version

in a terminal.

[rolf]

Thanks. I actually managed to get Wine installed using the Ubuntu Software Center button from the Applications menu. After I had submitted my post. *That* led to further hassles with fonts --- the ttf-mscorefonts-installer was "installed" but not working and I had the devil's own time trying to "Remove" it and re-install it. Finally managed to re-install it from the command line (had to google around to find out *how* to accept the license agreement --- you need to use the arrow keys!) and then Ubuntu Software Centre installer worked fine for Wine.

And yes, I have an elderly version of Ubuntu --- 10.04. Checked on the version of Wine that I got just now, using "wine --version" from the command line as suggested, and got "wine-1.4" so it seems that all is in harmony. Thanks again.