Wine Again

[#1]

Installed Mint 15 Cinamon as dual boot with fresh install of W7 starter.
Installed Wine 1.4 from the Software manager
Now need to update to the latest version 1.6 but cant seem to download it or install it... any help please
also still having problems trying to get the USB/comport adapter to be recognised...  Have spent hours going over the bits and bobs on my previous COMPORT thread, but the results do not come back the same.. and I cannot access the COMport...  ( adapter has been recognised ttyUSB0 ) .... (using CWCOM as before)...  again any help please...
(will be going out shortly, so may not answer until midday ish...)

[#2]

Re-read the previous thread, in it I told you how to get the latest wine version.
I will also be out all day.

[#3]

Are you sure your wine is 1.4, I'm using Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon myself and through normal updates I'm on wine 1.6. Try this command in a terminal :

wine --version

[#4]

Yes......

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gerry@gerry-SN10E100 ~ $ wine --version wine-1.4.1 gerry@gerry-SN10E100 ~ $

@HB  cant find any reference to updating in the comport thread.... 

[#5]

Maybe it was a pm then?
A quick google using only "wine ppa" gives
ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
Open software sources or Synaptic
Choose add additional source
paste the above in
reload and wine should be 1.6

[#6]

possibly a pm... will have a look in a mo...
been messing around and messed up the install,                                      so am doing it again!...  
watch this space ! ! ! ...  

edit  edit edit edit edit
checked the pm`s and you did indeed say something similar to your last post !... ( not that I would have recognised it as the instr`s for updating ! ! ! without finding the question first ! ! !)...

[#7]

or the way I would do it:-
Open a Terminal
sudo apt-add-ppa ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt update
apt upgrade
(or apt install wine if it wasn't installed)
This I find easier than messing about with the GUI's but that's just me 

[#8]

well it seems to have all gone wrong again........ been waiting for a process to end for over 30 minutes now.... if I try to close the window... I get the message... process is still running if you close this window it will kill it..... I did that before... ( messing up comment above)... and when I closed it, I had to re-install Mint AGAIN... to remove all the crud caused by this page "hanging"... because I could not get wine 1.4.1 installed because of some broken parts of the packages involved... now on my 3rd re-install and getting the same thing again....
I need to get a later version of wine, because 1.4.1 does not work properly with my cwcom prog, which I am AGAIN trying to get working...
well, it does work... it connects to the internet, but not by the comport... which is what I really really want to do... despite trying to follow the COMPORT thread previously, when I did manage to get it to connect with the ComPort. !..
so now I am going to KILL that window.... and do another re-install... if you are interested in the Terminal readout... see my blogsite  http://nemosphotography.blogspot.co.uk/ ; I will leave it there for the rest of the evening, and then take it down....

[#9]

You don't need to re-install Mint just because a wine program isn't working.
Remove the ~/.wine folder (In the file manager press Ctrl+H to show hidden files) then remove the .wine folder - everything now gone.
OR
Open a terminal
killall wine
rm -rf ~/.wine
apt remove --purge wine
then the rest of what I put in above with the apt install wine at the end.

[#10]

well I killed the window... and restarted... then opened the synaptic package manager ... put wine in the search box.... then apply, and it has now installed wine 1.4.1
not sure how I managed that.. but......
(didn`t re-install because wine wasn`t working...but because the process started in Terminal... had stopped, and nothing was progressing. which caused corruption on the packages... re-install was the only way I could see to "stop/kill" the process, and start afresh..)
so now,... if I do the top three lines of your previous post, then....... I should end up with wine 1.6 ? ? ? ? 
how long do you estimate that will take ?

[#11]

About 4 min.

[#12]

starting now 

[#13]

If only..................................

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gerry@gerry-SN10E100 ~ $ wine --version wine-1.4.1 gerry@gerry-SN10E100 ~ $ sudo apt-add-ppa ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa [sudo] password for gerry: sudo: apt-add-ppa: command not found gerry@gerry-SN10E100 ~ $

[#14]

My typo
use "apt-add-repository" rather than ppa.
I am so used to using tab to complete the command I forget the correct one,

[#15]

OK... while you were away    I found this page....
http://www.tecmint.com/install-wine-on-ubuntu-and-linux-mint/
so I followed the terminal instructions in the black box... and ... YAY!.. now got wine 1.6 installed....
now to go away and play ( hopefully  ) with CWCOM... and see if I can get the comport working ! ! ! ...
Thanks for your help again. HB...