can't install binfmt

[Amateur Phantom]

Hi, I recently upgraded my pc, everything is new an all, I happilly procceded to install Ubuntu 8.04, all was well, but when I tried installing binfmt so I could put Wine onto my pc, Gdebi crashed, I tried multiple times to no avail, could anyone help me out?:confused:

[jrib]

Why are you using gdebi instead of just installing wine directly from the repositories with a program like System -> Administration -> Synaptic or apt-get?

[Amateur Phantom]

I'm still a bit of a rookie, do you think you could walk me through how to do that?
thanks

[jrib]

Open System -> Administration -> Synaptic
Search for wine
Right Click -> Install
Apply

[Amateur Phantom]

thanks, still not working, I decided to put files onto a disk and use the synaptec add disk(or something like that) feature, as I say it is not working,It gave me an error report saying something about the disk not being .deb, so i think somehow the files for binfmt and wine have been corrupted, I will try downloading it again some other time, thanks again

[jrib]

Copy and paste actual error messages, otherwise it's really hardy to understand what is happening.

You want to install wine, so open a terminal and run sudo apt-get install wine. Then paste the full output here.

[cogadh]

Something everyone has failed to mention so far is that you do not need to install binfmt separately from Wine. If you just use Synaptic or apt-get, it will determine that Wine depends on binfmt and automatically install it when you install Wine.