Package catalog needs repair, but doesn't work. How can I fix this?

[Punkinhead]

I cannot install or uninstall anything because the package catalog needs repair, according to SoftwareManager. When I click the repair button I get this error message:

   wine1.6-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4); however:  Package wine1.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.5-i386:i386:
 wine1.5-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6-i386; however:
  Package wine1.6-i386:i386 is not confiNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
gured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.5-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wine1.6
 wine1.6-amd64
 wine
 wine1.6-i386:i386
 wine1.5-i386:i386
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6:
 wine1.6 depends on wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4); however:
  Version of wine1.6-amd64 on system is 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine:
 wine depends on wine1.6; however:
  Package wine1.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6-amd64:
 wine1.6-amd64 depends on wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1); however:
  Version of wine1.6 on system is 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6-amd64 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6-i386:i386:
 wine1.6-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4); however:
  Package wine1.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.5-i386:i386:
 wine1.5-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6-i386; however:
  Package wine1.6-i386:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.5-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[wildmanne39]

Please use code tags.

[Punkinhead]

Please use code tags.

Gotcha. Sorry about that.

[Punkinhead]

I think that I need to reinstall Wine, but I don't know how with this package catalog problem. Originally, I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and upgraded until I got to 12.04. This was all about a month ago and I had to perform some amateur repository meddling to get the old Ubuntu releases installed. I think somewhere along the line my installed packages got messed up. At this point, it is all over my head. And when did Ubuntu become such a resource hog? I used 9.04 a few years ago and it performed better than WinXP! My games had better framerates, booting was faster, etc. Now I feel like Ubuntu has lost that edge to Windows 8. I abhor Windows 8, but I need it if I'm to get decent performance out of this PC of mine.

[aktiwers]

Remove Wine completely and update the repos

sudo apt-get purge wine1* 
sudo apt-get purge wine
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update

Did that fix it?

[Punkinhead]

Thank for the help, aktiwers! I tried the code you gave me and here's what I got. After all of this in the terminal, I opened software center and it's still having the same problem.

isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get purge wine1*Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'wine1.6-amd64' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'arc-wine' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'winefish' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.3-gecko' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4-amd64' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5-i386' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.0' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.2' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.3' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6-dbg' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6-dev' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'q4wine-unstable' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-mono0.0.4' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-mono0.0.8' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'libkwineffects1abi3' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'gnome-wine-icon-theme' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4:any' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-i386' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4-common' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko2.21' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.4' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.5' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.6' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.7' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.8' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-gecko1.9' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'winetricks' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-mono' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-bin' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5-amd64' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-dev' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-bin-unstable' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4-dbg' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4-dev' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'q4wine' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.2-gecko' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6-i386' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-amd64' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5:any' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4-i386' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine-unstable' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5-dbg' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5-dev' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'shiki-wine-theme' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.3' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6:any' for regex 'wine1*'
Note, selecting 'wine1.4' instead of 'wine1.4:any'
Note, selecting 'wine1.5' instead of 'wine1.5:any'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6-i386:i386' instead of 'wine1.6-i386'
Note, selecting 'wine1.6' instead of 'wine1.6:any'
Package gnome-wine-icon-theme is not installed, so not removed
Package q4wine is not installed, so not removed
Package shiki-wine-theme is not installed, so not removed
Package winefish is not installed, so not removed
Package libkwineffects1abi3 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.2 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.3 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.4-dev is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.4-dbg is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.4-common is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.5-dev is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.5-dbg is not installed, so not removed
Package wine-gecko1.5 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine-gecko1.6 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine-gecko1.7 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine-mono0.0.4 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine-gecko1.8 is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.6-dev is not installed, so not removed
Package wine1.6-dbg is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 playonlinux : Depends: wine or
                        wine-unstable but it is not installable
 wine1.6-i386:i386 : Depends: wine1.6:any:i386 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4)
                     Recommends: wine-mono0.0.8:i386
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get purge wine
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:
 wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4) but 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
 wine1.6-amd64 : Depends: wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
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:
 wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4) but 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1 is installed
 wine1.6-amd64 : Depends: wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  wine-gecko1.9:i386 linux-image-3.2.0-44-generic
  linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-3.2.0-44-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  wine1.6 wine1.6-i386:i386
Suggested packages:
  dosbox:any
The following packages will be upgraded:
  wine1.6 wine1.6-i386:i386
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/25.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 573 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6:
 wine1.6 depends on wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4); however:
  Version of wine1.6-amd64 on system is 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6-amd64:
 wine1.6-amd64 depends on wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1); however:
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                            Version of wine1.6 on system is 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6-amd64 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine:
 wine depends on wine1.6; however:
  Package wine1.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.6-i386:i386:
 wine1.6-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4); however:
  Package wine1.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.6-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wine1.5-i386:i386:
 wine1.5-i386:i386 depends on wine1.6-i386; however:
  Package wine1.6-i386:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wine1.5-i386:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wine1.6
 wine1.6-amd64
 wine
 wine1.6-i386:i386
 wine1.5-i386:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
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E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Sorry it's so much code, but I don't know enough to pick out the relevant bits for you. I really appreciate your time and effort here.

[Impavidus]

...
And when did Ubuntu become such a resource hog? I used 9.04 a few years ago and it performed better than WinXP!
...

Since 11.04 I think. The biggest resource hug is the desktop environment. For older machines Xubuntu, with the xfce DE, is more suited. Default Ubuntu is slower than Win XP, which is not surprising given that XP is a decade old. I can't compare to more recent windowses, as I never tried them, but I think they have become slower too.

[aktiwers]

Do you still use Playonlinux?

To fix this you need to remove everything that has to do with Wine, so:

sudo apt-get remove playonlinux
sudo apt-get purge wine1*
sudo apt-get purge wine
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update

If you want playonlinux back, install it when the repos are fixed again.

Hope it works

[Punkinhead]

Alas...
Do I need to install a dependency before I can uninstall playonlinux?

isaac@isaac-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove playonlinux
[sudo] password for isaac: 
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:
 wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-amd64 (= 1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~ppa4) but 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
 wine1.6-amd64 : Depends: wine1.6:any (= 1.6~rc4-0ubuntu1)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

[aktiwers]

Yes please try it - and try this:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update