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/ 3 Years ago, thu, july 22, 2021, 12:54:09
I recently wiped my image to get rid of weirdness going on with my system and reinstalled Ubuntu. I followed the usual WINE installation instructions (add the WINE PPA, update/upgrade, and install), and ran winecfg, and everything went smoothly. However, it refuses to run any Windows .exe file, though it does show up on the right-click menu.
I decided that I would uninstall WINE and compile it myself so as to make sure no odd bugs were going on with the public binary. I opened the terminal and typed sudo apt purge wine, but was told that Virtual packages like 'wine' can't be removed. How do I fix this?
EDIT: Here is the output of apt-cache show wine:
Package: wine
Source: wine1.8
Priority: extra
Section: metapackages
Installed-Size: 6
Maintainer: Scott Ritchie <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:1.8.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.10.1~ppa1
Depends: wine1.6 | wine1.8
Filename: pool/main/w/wine1.8/wine_1.8.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.10.1~ppa1_amd64.deb
Size: 992
MD5sum: a39802d002bc8288e788b8ed18cda444
SHA1: bb16cb968823dbde908bb5062d45a6df145d97d4
SHA256: 85d8c892be1c13c0c819473f767217ee0c90fb05baf99fbbe0a57292afa86515
Description-en: Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta-package)
Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux.
Applications are run at full speed without the need of cpu emulation. Wine
does not require Microsoft Windows, however it can use native system dll
files in place of its own if they are available.
.
This meta-package always depends on the latest stable version of Wine.
Description-md5: 7ca999b13ee007110685ad22b3ecb3b6
Multi-Arch: foreign
Package: wine
Priority: extra
Section: universe/otherosfs
Installed-Size: 6
Maintainer: Scott Ritchie <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Source: wine1.6
Version: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14
Depends: wine1.6
Filename: pool/universe/w/wine1.6/wine_1.6.2-0ubuntu14_amd64.deb
Size: 974
MD5sum: bea5bed393084b4406fcda336325bc71
SHA1: 12cb87640d0cb8a707ce2e89ebd872e5e32c8c9b
SHA256: ab68e0b0f6122e5d189171242a3fc706cd8689ed45feb25b3140530f17c81188
Description-en: Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta-package)
Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux.
Applications are run at full speed without the need of cpu emulation. Wine
does not require Microsoft Windows, however it can use native system dll
files in place of its own if they are available.
.
This meta-package always depends on the default version of Wine.
Description-md5: 6474b3e541944944e61aec502ceb28f2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Putting aptitude search '~i~Px-wine' into the terminal created no results.
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