Ubuntu – “An error has occured”

aptpackage-managementwine

Firstly I don't know anything about this 'error' its always there and when it isn't is never.

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That's the icon but here is what it says when I click on it or hover over:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click
menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message
was: 'Unknown error '' ("The cache has no package
named 'wine-devel-i386'"). This usually means that your installed
packages have unmet independences

That is it, I ran apt-get in terminal but nothing happened only showed me what apt-get does and the package manager is not in the right click menu.

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I only use Wine for one program which is Cinebench to stress my CPU

Thanks for reading! And any help is appreciated 😀

Best Answer

The error points to wine and the i386 architecture.

PART A - If you are using a 64bit machine enable 32bit architecture: 

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Reboot. Test. If that works great, thats all it was! If that doesn't work I'd go to part B

PART B - I'd roll my sleeves up and start really troubleshooting by updating and upgrading.

sudo apt-get update

Then

sudo apt-get upgrade

Then restarting:

sudo shutdown -r now

If that error still doesn't go away after updating and upgrading and rebooting what I'd do at this point is go to part C

PART -C: Completely remove wine.

sudo service wine stop

Then

sudo apt-get purge wine

Then

sudo apt-get remove wine

That removes it and its dependencies and resources. Then restart. 

sudo shutdown -r now

If no error after restart then the error was directly related to wine; which if you do not need it then continue on without it. If there error is still there at this point then I'm stumped and would start looking at the hardware I'm using and I'd double check I have the most up to date versions on EVERYTHING installed.

If you do need wine, now or at a later point, then I'd go with wineHQ:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

Then

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Good luck with your trusty tahr!!

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