New Sparky 4.5.2 Minimal GUI install. Never had any problem getting wine installed in older versions, but with 4.5.2 get the following: "wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 1.8.5-1) but it is not going to be installed". Apparently an ongoing problem, in general, but have not been able to overcome it this time. What have I forgotten?
Something has been changed I think.
wine32 needs-> libwine:i386-> libfontconfig1:i386-> which can be installed, but wants to remove xserver and installed desktops and apps.
@seppalta, could an upgrade to unstable solve your problem? What do you need wine for anyway?
Or could an upgrade to sid just end in an ;D situation.
Quote from: blaze on January 05, 2017, 12:49:39 PM
@seppalta, could an upgrade to unstable solve your problem? What do you need wine for anyway?
Afraid unstable will bring on more problems than not getting wine installed. Must be a simpler solution. Why wine? Increases "choice". Lots of nice Wine apps with no corresponding "nice" Linux apps. "nice" = "simple in application but do the job". On the other hand, Linux apps have improved and more have become available in the last few years, so I am seriously considering dumping wine, which has always been painful to install on 64-bit and is too heavy.
Finally found a somewhat "heavy" solution to get wine installed on 64-bit Sparky 4.5.2; namely, install a relatively new program called wine-staging:
wget https://repos.wine-staging.com/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
Next, add their Debian Sid repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb https://repos.wine-staging.com/debian/ sid main
Then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-staging
sudo apt autoremove
It appears only the Sid repository works for Sparky, as I first tried Wheezy, Jessie and Stretch without success. The execs are /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine and /opt/wine-staging/bin/winecfg.
I recommend wine-staging be put in the Sparky repository.
Ok, put already on my list.