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Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
02-04-2021 10:29 PM - edited 02-04-2021 10:30 PM
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Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 9:37 AM
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Try a bigger one 🙂
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 1:00 PM
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@Bogbody As dvorak also pointed out. .... however... I think it must be the way that mkusb partitions the usb stick.
sdc1 iso9660 1.9G
sdc2 vfat 3.9M
sdc3 vfat USB DATA
I don`t know how they work... but I am guessing that sdc1 is the initial MINT 20.1 INSTALL.. ( purely from the 1.9G size) sdc2 is the persistence area. (almost 4GB) . and sdc3 is a storage area... for whatever.... pics vids docs ? ? ?? no idea how to access that area.. ore use it as a larger persistence area
I do not know how to make the persistence area bigger...using mkusb... when I try to make a "live" usb with UNETBOOTIN UUI or YUMI.. they have a slider fo setting the persistence area size.. in mb ! ! ! ..
they all claim that the file system is wrong a NTFS..... then in the same window it says it should be FAT32 or NTFS.. and that the usb stick will not be bootable....[ OK..]
. well.. no, its not OK.. cos that is a totally confusing message, and I don`t know how to get around it...
I would have thought that 4GB is big enough for WINE and a couple of small progs, as I have done this before, ( when I was a Windows user )....
I`m running MInt 19.3 on this laptop... with WINE and I do run windows progs via that... including the above mentioned usb burner software.... There is a USB image writer on the software menu... but there is no way of adding persistence on that one.
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 1:25 PM
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@shutter sdc2 vfat 3.9M
That actually says 3.9 MB not GB
Mkusb allows you to set the percentage of the remaining space on the USB (after the iso boot partition) that is to be used for persistence. Given that you have little or no need for the USBDATA (its an NTFS file system I believe) partition then why not set the percentage to 95% , that way most of the 30GB remaining will be persistent storage
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Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 1:40 PM
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@MisterW Ah yes.. ! ... thanks for spotting that gaff !... I will do another mkusb and see if that works better with , as you say 95% as the percentage target..
Thanks very much
Any ideas on my original queries though ????
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 1:42 PM
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@shutter the problems will likely go away once you have sufficient space.
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Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
03-04-2021 2:28 PM
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@MisterW OK>. thanks... I`m doing another USB stick, at the moment... 16GB.. and it seems to be progressing.... I have Mint 20.1 64bit on it now... and WINE 6.0 so it`s not looking too bad at the moment...
Thanks for your interest, and input.
04-04-2021 5:01 AM
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@shutter wrote:
@TheRoadCrew OK.. so you are going to do a runner now, then ! ! ! ...
That cloud of dust you saw was kicked up by my heels...
I cannot understand how a new install can give "you have broken packages"..
I think the most likely scenario is that you and Synaptic colluded to break them.....
Fundamentally, if you are going to use a package manager which depends on online repos you really should be online when you use it.
Open Synaptic on a new install and it'll look look this:
Notice the status panel at the bottom - no broken packages.
Ideally, you would be online and click the Reload button, top left, to update the package cache before doing anything else.
It's not an unreasonable assumption that installing software would add packages to the system; select wine to install when offline and you'll be presented with a huge list of packages to be removed which is indicative that all is not quite right:
At this point if you proceed to Mark all these packages for removal you'll see this:
WINE is clearly marked for installation but if you look at the status panel you'll see that to proceed (by clicking the Apply button) will result in 10 broken packages....
Conclusion: Synaptic borked your system. But only when you told it to.
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
04-04-2021 12:24 PM
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@TheRoadCrew Thank you.... Thankyou ...... I thang you !.. ( to quote a well known comedian of years gone by ! )
Yes, indeedy... the explanation and the pics has cleared up a lot of misconceptions and I will follow the routine you suggest.
Much appreciated.
Many Thanks..
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
04-04-2021 7:57 PM
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UPDATE
I have finally got a working copy !... Software manager - useless... showed "WINE" but was "not available".. when selected
Package Manger - useless.. even though it did download new packages, and "supposedly" installed WINE 5.03.. when I checked with wine --version... it reported wine 5.03 but when I tried my special program, there was no "Open with WIndows program loader" only open with Archive manager
so .. I went to the net and asked Google... copied and pasted whatever ( which I have done many times before ) .and at the end.. I entered " wine --version " and it reported wine 6.0
and my special program loaded up correctly..
so all is happiness in the world again ! .
Thanks again for all the contributions...
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
05-04-2021 7:17 PM
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Hope you managed to download a proper package for your version 6.0?
Or did you compile from source?
It's risky (in the long run) to be installing versions that don't correspond with your repository version.
One fine day, you may get a program update that conflicts with some library that got installed with your Wine 6.0.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Broken ? ? ? ? ?
06-04-2021 10:39 AM
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@TheRoadCrew Yep! .. I think I did get the right one !.... I used the "copy and paste" from this page...
It`s a shame that Mint, being so popular, as an alternative Linux Distro that the team cannot do what the ZORIN team have done... i.e. make provision for WINE to self install, as soon as a "windows type" program is called to install from the.exe file
saves a lot of faffing about !...
Thanks for your input.
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