Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

[alpacawon]

Hey ya'll.

So I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to get my internet set up. I've decided to try EasyTether but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. I downloaded the .deb file and got it extracted, but when it comes to "Open Terminal on your Linux computer, type easytether connect, press Enter" I'm lost. All I get is

 easytether: command not found

Then I had the bright idea that maybe PdaNet might work through Wine, but I can't figure out how to get Wine working. I downloaded/extracted wine1.3_1.3.28-Oubuntu1_i386.deb and I can see the stupid program sitting on the desktop but the Terminal can't find it.

Help.ubuntu.com says I should do "winecfg" first and that's met with

The program 'winecfg' can be found in the following packages:
* wine1.2
* wine1.3
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

And then when I do that, I get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package wine1.3
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'wine1.3'

I found on another forum someone recommended "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine1.3" but that seems to want an internet connection -- which I don't have at the moment. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Cheesemill]

I downloaded the .deb file and got it extracted

You have extracted the .deb file instead of installing it. Try doing:

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

The easytether command should then work in the terminal.

[alpacawon]

"sudo dpkg -i easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb" gives me

dpkg: error processing easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb

And the same goes for Wine. Are they in the wrong place?

[Cheesemill]

Where did you download them to?

To make life easier you can type:

dpkg -i

and then drag and drop the file onto the terminal, this will make sure you have the correct path.

[alpacawon]

I downloaded the .debs to the desktop so I wouldn't lose them. That's a neat trick, dragging and dropping, but now I get a new error

dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege

[Cheesemill]

I downloaded the .debs to the desktop so I wouldn't lose them. That's a neat trick, dragging and dropping, but now I get a new error

dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege

Sorry, it should be:

sudo dpkg -i

[alpacawon]

Yay thank you soooo much! I can get online now at least, but still having trouble with Wine.

rosemary@alpaca1:~$ sudo dpkg -i '/home/rosemary/Desktop/wine1.3_1.3.28-0ubuntu1_i386.deb' 
[sudo] password for rosemary: 
(Reading database ... 167062 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace wine1.3 1.3.28-0ubuntu1 (using .../wine1.3_1.3.28-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement wine1.3 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.3:
 wine1.3 depends on libgettextpo0; however:
  Package libgettextpo0 is not installed.
 wine1.3 depends on libmpg123-0 (>= 1.6.2); however:
  Package libmpg123-0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing wine1.3 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wine1.3
rosemary@alpaca1:~$

[Cheesemill]

Now that you are online you can just do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine1.3

as you mentioned in your original post.

[alpacawon]

Okay, I must be doing something wrong... "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa" yields no results, it just times out after a few minutes. It updates successfully, but then the last command says I'm missing stuff.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wine1.3 : Depends: libgettextpo0
           Depends: libmpg123-0 (>= 1.6.2) but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer but it is not going to be installed or
                       kdebase-runtime but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-droid but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: ttf-umefont
           Recommends: winbind but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: wine1.3-gecko (>= 1.3) but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: winetricks but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Would you recommend I hunt down the recommendations and try to install those, or just try to install without packages? Thanks again.

[Cheesemill]

You're getting these errors because you tried to install software while offline. Simply doing what it recommends should fix any problems:

sudo apt-get f install