Comment 4 for bug 1652434

Thanks for the swift response.

I fixed it by removing all wine stuff, fixed a broken package with Synaptic in there somewhere, removed ~/.wine and reinstalled following the instructions on the Wine website. Had to load a few extras but it was part of the automated process & all is now good. All of this to run PocketD - a DOS program. I don't need it but I hope to try to build something similar with Python just because. Seems like a reasonable way to learn the language 🤓

Thanks for your reply, Merry Christmas

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-------- Original message --------
From: jre <email address hidden>
Date: 25/12/2016 10:01 (GMT+10:00)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 1652434] Re: package wine-stable 1.8.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

Hi,

thanks for reporting this. I can reproduce this if I switch from wine-
stable + wine32 to wine-stable + wine64. I'll (try to) fix that soon.

However the original reason that prompted you to do this ("Couldn't run winecfg due to having i386 library on a AMD64 system") seems to be a misunderstanding:
Running wine-stable + wine32 is perfectly fine, and should work (if you want to run only 32-bit Windows applications this might even be the safer bet). So what exactly happened when you wanted to run winecfg?

If you have problems now to (un-)install packages due to this bug, just
remove wine-stable and wine64. This should bring your system back in a
perfectly fine state.

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Title:
  package wine-stable 1.8.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers
  looping, abandoned

Status in wine package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Couldn't run winecfg due to having i386 library on a AMD64 system.
  Tried to uninstall wine completely via Synaptic but got this error.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: wine-stable 1.8.5-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec 24 20:16:59 2016
  ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-05 (109 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu1
   apt 1.3.3
  SourcePackage: wine
  Title: package wine-stable 1.8.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-14 (71 days ago)

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