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Majal
Asked: 2014-05-11 08:27:14 +0800 CST

Wine automatically removed from system; cannot reinstall

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and did not run on any major issues, until today. My logs showed that yesterday, May 9, 2014 my system performed an automatic dist-upgrade. With that dist-upgrade, it uninstalled WINE (1.6). So I cannot run WINE-based programs now. (I tried waiting for a day and repeatedly tried sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade without success.)

sudo apt-get install wine or sudo aptitude install wine does not install WINE, instead error like this is encountered:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed

Did anybody else experience similar breakage lately?

12.04

2 Answers

  1. Try:

    ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install wine
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  2. Best Answer

    After a few days, I think I found the source of the problem: certain packages that makes the system unstable. Find these, and remove them. In my case, I uninstalled grive and grive-tools, with the latter not being designed for Ubuntu 12.04. So even if their site said that they encountered no problems with it in their 12.04, I had it in mine.

    Lesson (the hard way): If you need to maintain a production system that shouldn't break, try to stick closely to well tested repos rather than individual downloads of one or two packages from builds that are not designed for your system.

    I was able to reinstall WINE after I removed programs that messed up the system. If you have this problem, search for those (esp. those you recently installed) and remove them.

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