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