Wine

[Colo2]

Hey, I had ubuntu 7.10 and I tried to look for wine in the add/remove programs. It didn't come up.so I spent hours upgrading to the new one 8.4 and I checked again, nothing. I tried going in Synaptic PAckage manager and it came up, I installed something, and it installed in the "other" folder in my application list. I go to it and click on it and it opens up, but gives me the message that I need to install Wine :(

I clicked "ok" to :"do you want to install wine now" and it gave me a error message

"You cannot install wine without having software-properties-kde installed."

I was confused, but I had nothing to loose, I went to Synaptic and searched for it and it came up, I ticked it and applied/installed. it finished and I tried again, still gives me the same error about software-properties-kde.

I also tried restarting... Nothing. can anyone help?

thanks :) tom

[jwaiwit]

You have to add wine to repository first.
follow this page
http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

. I just play dota on Wine. great software.

[Colo2]

Ok, I did all that. On the wine page, it says

"If you are using Ubuntu, you can now install Wine by clicking this link. Alternatively, you can install by going to Applications->Add/Remove and searching for Wine." Since searching for Wine in add/remove programs RETURNS NO RESULTS for me :( for some reason
I clicked "by clicking this link"
And I got a lovely error message saying:

"cannot install Wine (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages"

What???? :(

[jwaiwit]

Hmm.. may be your source package got some problem.
I found something interesting . It's might help.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-277185.html

[Colo2]

Why doesn't it show up in the add remove???????

My friend has ubuntu and it shows up for him!!! Why ??? :(