Downloading Wine on Ubuntu(Crouton) || Samsung Chromebook

Haland

Let me start off by saying, I am very sorry if this is in the wrong place on the forums. I am VERY new to linux. I have no clue what I am doing, and it may as well be a miracle that I got ubuntu installed on my chromebook in the first place.

That being said, I like linux so far. Seems very lightweight, quick, and enjoyable.

Now, my issue. I have been trying to get Wine onto my chromebook as I would like to get programs like hearthstone, and other games to play. However, I encounter issues when trying to install Wine.

I have tried to add it via sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

then sudo apt-get update, and finally sudo apt-get install wine1.7 ( i have also tried wine1.6)

The error i get is:

(precise)haland@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package wine1.7

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'wine1.7'

I have heard that you don't get as many 'quality of life' packages when installing ubuntu through crouton. If this is the case, I need to know what packages to get...

Again, sorry if this is in the wrong place... Any help would be a godsend, and I thank anyone that takes time out of their day. If I have not provided enough information, please tell me.. and I will try and supply more. Thank you, Haland.

arochester

Don't specify the version number. Just do

sudo apt-get install wine

Haland

arochester wrote:

Don't specify the version number. Just do

sudo apt-get install wine

I have tried that. It comes up with this error:

(precise)haland@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wine is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'wine' has no installation candidate

arochester

Have you tried, first, doing:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then

sudo apt-get install wine

?

Haland

arochester wrote:

Have you tried, first, doing:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then

sudo apt-get install wine

?

It said
(precise)haland@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
(precise)haland@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


on both upgrades, and still no luck with the installing of wine.. Threw the same error as before.

arochester

Which model of Samsung Chromebook have you got?

WINE does not and will not work on the ARM Chromebook, as Windows executables are i386/x64, and WINE runs them directly (it is not an emulator). It works fine on x86-based Chromebooks using the version in the repositories.

- https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/121

Haland

arochester wrote:

Which model of Samsung Chromebook have you got?

WINE does not and will not work on the ARM Chromebook, as Windows executables are i386/x64, and WINE runs them directly (it is not an emulator). It works fine on x86-based Chromebooks using the version in the repositories.

- https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/121

Aww, that must be it. Thanks for the response.

giogziro95

You may want to try using QEMU in combination with Wine.