Errors installing wine using pacman

acer · 2009-01-02 23:04:44

I've been trying to install wine from the repos as a first step towards playing EV Nova. However,

pacman -Sy wine

gives the following errors:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
wine: /usr/bin/wine exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Looking at the line that says there is already a wine binary in the filesystem, I thought this error may be related to the fact that picasa uses wine, and I have picasa installed. If this is the case, is there a way to run "normal" wine alongside the picasa wine?

Thanks in advance.

tdy · 2009-01-02 23:50:32

What does `pacman -Qo /usr/bin/wine` say?

stefanwilkens · 2009-01-02 23:55:38

You might try to simply install wine from the repos and install picasa under the repo-wine. I'm not sure if google patched wine to be able to run picasa fluently but it's worth a shot.

You'll have to uninstall picasa (and the included picasawine) first though

tdy · 2009-01-03 00:00:23

The reason I ask is that picasa and picasa-beta do not install anything as /usr/bin/wine.

acer · 2009-01-04 17:22:27

Thanks for the responses.

I think that google did create a specialised version of wine for their linux distribution of picasa (see google faq for Linux picasa here: http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#26) and anyway I can't figure out a way of using their version to run windows programs other than picasa.

So, trying `pacman -Qo /usr/bin/wine` gives the following response:

error: cannot determine ownership of a directory

Ah-ha. Looking more closely (as I should have, with hindsight, done already) /usr/bin/wine is in fact a symlink to /opt/picasa/wine. Simply renaming the symlink to /usr/bin/wine2 does not seem to affect picasa, and also allows wine to be installed from the repos with no trouble.

Now to get EVN working...

tdy · 2009-01-04 17:31:13

picasa and picasa-beta do not install a /usr/bin/wine symlink. You must have installed picasa manually or something.

Just for future reference, you should really consider installing things with PKGBUILDs (especially since picasa is already in the AUR) for situations just like this. It's much simpler to control where things are installed and to diagnose/resolve conflicts.

Last edited by tdy (2009-01-04 21:31:27)

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Errors installing wine using pacman

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