Re: wine installation help needed

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Xplicit Language <xplicitlanguage@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
>     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.
> 
>    
>   well i kind of crashed linux so bad there is nosources.list anymore lol, i tried to do a update into unstable items, so that wine will work, and in synaptic i did have to adjust the repositories to get the files, and remove the one that was bad. with the new wine asking for a unstable item(s) i think i should just switch to unstable version os and that would be a work around for me, since sarge didn't like the item i installed, and how it forced removal of gnome and other things, updates, and installs.

I think unstable will only get you more problems. How do you know it's
asking for a package from unstable? What package and which version is
it asking for?

Please keep the discussion on list.

Regards
Andrei
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