[ale] can't install Wine

[Greg Clifton]

So once you start wine-ing you can't stop whining?

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:

> Googling didn't help.  I can see many people with the same problem, but no
> solution.  Tried to 'apt-get remove wine' from single user mode.  It behaved
> as if it removed it, but it didn't.
> So basically I'm stuck in la-la-land:  can't correct, can't remove.
>
> -- Asher
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the good advice.    A simple apt-get installed wine with no
>> problem.
>> Ironically, I may want to remove it.  Here's the longer story:
>> I want wine so I can run safari.
>> I want safari so I can connect to slingbox (they have a new, safari-only
>> plugin).
>>
>> But I made a mistake while installing safari.  Now wine's software manager
>> wouldn't remove safari (or any software, for that matter).  I tried to
>> 'apt-get remove wine' (wanting to start afresh), but wine (and all the Apple
>> SW installed on it) are not getting wiped.
>>
>> Anybody has the experience here how to either:
>> Force remove all Apple SW from wine - or
>> force remove wine altogether (assuming that will also remove Apple with
>> it)????
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- Asher
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/15/2010 12:47 PM, Asher Vilensky wrote:
>>> > I'm trying to install Wine on my Ubuntu Netbook.  I'm getting a network
>>> > error, which I don't understand since I'm connected and surfing fine.
>>>  I
>>> > can ping 91.189.88.31 just fine.  Any idea what it might be?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Failed to fetch
>>> >
>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb>
>>> > <
>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
>>> >
>>> > 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
>>>
>>> trying in a browser gets this:
>>>
>>> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb<http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.4.7%7Edfsg-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb>
>>> Oops! This link appears to be broken.
>>> Suggestions:
>>> Go to ubuntu.­com
>>> Go to us.­archive.­ubuntu.­com
>>> Search us.archive.ubuntu.com for ubuntu pool main samba lib web client 0
>>> 7~dfsg 1 3 i386
>>> Search on Google:
>>>
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