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I attempted to update wine from my existing 1.5 by installing 1.7 through apt-get but apparently it only partially succeeded. Now it looks like I'm trapped in a catch-22: When I try to install 1.7 it fails because 1.5 is already installed and is using some of the same files. I apparently can't remove either 1.5 or the installed portion of 1.7 because of the unmet dependency.

Running apt-get -f install makes it try to install wine1.7-i386 but this fails:

Unpacking wine1.7-i386:i386 (from .../wine1.7-i386_1%3a1.7.11-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine1.7-i386_1%3a1.7.11-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/wine', which is also in package wine1.5 1.5.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~oneiric1+pulse17
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/wine1.7-i386_1%3a1.7.11-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Running apt-get autoclean after that removes wine1.7-i386 but either way I can't seem to get beyond that. Also, Ubuntu Update Manager crashes on load, obviously due to the same error.

Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks.

kiri
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  • Which the error you get with sudo apt-get remove wine1.5? – user.dz Jan 24 '14 at 14:08
  • The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.11-0ubuntu1) E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). – Gary Kleppe Jan 24 '14 at 22:55
  • All I can figure is that since wine1.7 is partially installed, no packages can be changed until this is fixed.

    I'm trying to do a dpkg -r on wine 1.7. Let's see if that works.

     – Gary Kleppe Jan 24 '14 at 23:31
  • sudo dpkg --purge --force-all wine1.7 then sudo dpkg --remove --force-all wine1.5 – user.dz Jan 24 '14 at 23:34
  • Which one solved it? – user.dz Jan 25 '14 at 00:03
  • dpkg -r wine1.7, then apt-get remove wine1.5 and then apt-get install wine1.7. – Gary Kleppe Jan 26 '14 at 12:43
  • Please, could you post as an answer, then copy all comments with test results to your question and delete non needed ones. So it will be clean for new readers – user.dz Jan 26 '14 at 12:47

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Remove wine1.5

sudo apt-get remove wine1.5

Then install wine1.7

sudo apt-get remove wine1.7
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