Re: wine installation help needed

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Xplicit Language <xplicitlanguage@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > 2. 'apt-get update'. This brings the package
> > database up to date. If
> > you get any errors just try to run the command
> > again.
> > 3. 'apt-get install wine'. This will automatically
> > download the
> > package, including all dependencies and install
> > them.
> 
> ++
> ++
> ok i did that and it looks for libxxf86dga1, i have it
> on my desktop in a folder called deb, when it looks
> with synaptic or apt-get it wants packages.gz to be
> present for some reason, now i have figured out a way
> to trick it into looking on the hdd, how do i make it
> stop looking for packages.gz? lol

I think it's easier if you just install 'libxxf86dga1' manually. From
a root shell, cd to your 'deb' directory and do 'dpkg -i
your-deb-file.deb'. (Hint: you can use tab for autocompletion of the
filename). But this might still not be enough and normaly this should
not happen (especially with sarge). 

It might be that your sources.list is not properly set-up. Please do
'cat /etc/apt/sources.list' and post the output here. If this is the
problem then, next time you won't have to worry about dependencies
anymore.

Regards
Andrei
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