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Thank you. After seeing it mentioned elsewhere on the forum I made a Ventnoy USB drive to facilitate playing with different distros and will eventually gravitate to whichever one suits me best. Ubuntu 20.04 seems perfectly fine for my needs just now but I'll have fun playing with some others.

@f33dm3bits Ok, thanks for the explanation. I can confirm Wine is now up and running here :D:cool: so all's good... Mostly. I tried that command but no joy I'm afraid. I'll post a separate thread later.

@f33dm3bits if you have time soon would you be able to let me know briefly what was the issue preventing Wine from installing? If I run into the same situation after installing Ubuntu permanently on my machine I'd like to be able to rectify it as with as little fuss as possible. Er, ok... maybe...

It looks like it yes but maybe another problem has appeared in the process - See above re Ubuntu Software. Will have to investigate that another time though. Thanks again

Unpacking libmysqlclient21:i386 (8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libodbc1:i386. Preparing to unpack .../205-libodbc1_2.3.6-0.1build1_i386.deb ... Unpacking libodbc1:i386 (2.3.6-0.1build1) ... Selecting previously unselected package libodbc1:amd64. Preparing...

Preparing to unpack .../090-libusb-1.0-0_2%3a1.0.23-2build1_i386.deb ... Unpacking libusb-1.0-0:i386 (2:1.0.23-2build1) ... Selecting previously unselected package libgphoto2-port12:i386. Preparing to unpack .../091-libgphoto2-port12_2.5.25-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking...

Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package libaom0:i386. (Reading database ... 224804 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../000-libaom0_1.0.0.errata1-3build1_i386.deb ... Unpacking libaom0:i386 (1.0.0.errata1-3build1) ... Selecting...

Get:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal/main i386 wine-stable-i386 i386 5.0.3~focal [66.1 MB] Get:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Release amd64 (20200731) focal/main i386 libdrm2 i386 2.4.101-2 [35.5 kB] Get:3 cdrom://Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Release amd64...

Quite a lot :) ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfprint-2-tod1 Use 'sudo apt...

That's looking good now. Will post up the output in a while :)

Box ticked and then ran the command... Lots going on ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Release amd64 (20200731) focal InRelease Hit:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Release amd64 (20200731) focal Release Hit:3...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libopenal1:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libopenal1:i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or...

That's not giving much at all... ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search wine-stable-i386 wine-stable-i386 - WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine-stable-i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install winehq-stable Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution...