=== mwhudson is now known as zz_mwhudson === zz_mwhudson is now known as mwhudson === mwhudson is now known as zz_mwhudson [17:48] morning [19:26] morning [19:45] morning [19:55] morning [22:10] can anyone help me out with installing wine in ubuntu? [22:11] UncleGus: what's going wrong? [22:13] sudo apt-get install wine gives me: [22:13] wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not installable or [22:13] wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed [22:13] sudo apt-get install wine1.6 tells me that wine1.7 replaces it [22:13] sudo apt-get wine1.7 gives me: [22:13] The following packages have unmet dependencies: [22:13] wine1.7 : Depends: wine1.7-i386 (= 1:1.7.12-0ubuntu1~saucy1) but it is not installable [22:14] what architecture are you on? [22:14] sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386 gives me: [22:14] Package wine1.7-i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package. [22:14] This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or [22:14] is only available from another source [22:14] E: Package 'wine1.7-i386' has no installation candidate [22:15] UncleGus: dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH [22:16] i'd guess you're using a 64-bit install [22:16] not sure what the multiarch status of saucy is though - I don't have an ubuntu that recent around here [22:20] UncleGus: hmm, i can't see those versions - only 1.4 and older here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=wine&searchon=sourcenames [22:23] sorry, I got distracted by work [22:23] inconsiderate boss [22:23] The program 'dpkg-architecture' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: [22:23] sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev [22:24] I think it is 64 bit though [22:24] is that the issue? [22:24] should I be looking for "install wine on ubuntu 64bit"? or something? [22:24] well, that'll probably be why "Package 'wine1.7-i386' has no installation candidate" [22:24] but I'm unclear where you're getting 1.7 from [22:24] do you have some PPA or other external repo added? [22:25] no idea, man [22:25] never used linux before a few days ago [22:27] aha [22:27] I think I have it [22:31] it's normal for wine to have both amd64 & i386 enabled for dpkg, I think that's been the default [22:36] I'm following this tutorial thing, and it had an extra step for running wine on 64 bit wheezy, and I ignored it because I'm not using wheezy, or at least I don't know what it is= [22:36] so I just ran that step and it's doing some stuff [22:36] installing wine [22:37] you'd think it would be one of the first things you'd find though, when you google the error [22:37] it was the first thing you asked me [22:38] was the step something like dpkg --add-architecture i386? [22:38] indeed [22:38] then apt-get update [22:38] then apt-get install wine:i386 [22:40] so that's enabled what's know as "multiarch" [22:40] sweet [22:40] which is a fairly recent change which allows installing 32 and 64 bit versions of packages on the same machine [22:41] so it can run 32 bit and 64 bit [22:41] yes, but packages need fixing to support it and not all have been [22:41] but most of the ones people really commonly want probably have been [22:42] now I'm supposed to run this script but I'm getting a permission error, even when using sudo [22:48] okay, another question then [22:48] I'm trying to switch user or something [22:48] su - username [22:48] but it's asking me for a password when I never gave the user one [22:48] is there some kind of default password? [22:51] or is there some way I can change a user's password [22:53] you can probably do: sudo su - username [22:53] lolyep [22:53] or to set/change a password: sudo passwd username === zz_mwhudson is now known as mwhudson [23:11] when you run xvfb, are you supposed to wait for the command prompt to reappear or what? [23:15] you probably want to use xvfb-run [23:16] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/xvfb-run.1.html === mwhudson is now known as zz_mwhudson