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
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...
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...
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...