I have not updated my system in any way since probably early June (kernel is 4.8.0-53-generic x86_64). However in the last few days (say, since July 10th) the message shown below has been on my notification panel:
I am very curious to know how that could happen after such a time lag.
Sketchup, for example, works fine still under Wine (except for a momentary randomising of window).
The only coincidence I can think of is that I moved the laptop from France to England around then.
Wine is a funny one, I tend to encounter this error too, but it appears to be harmless.
If you use Wine’s PPA/sources (this is the case if you installed it through the Software Boutique) then this “error” is known to happen, presumably because there is also wine in the official archives and they differ from the one provided by the official Wine themselves.
I did the reinstall. So far it works fine now. Thanks.
$ sudo apt install --reinstall wine1.6-i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
appstream gnome-software-common libappstream3 libgtkspell3-3-0 libsnapd-glib1 libxapian22v5 snap-confine snapd-login-service
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64
Suggested packages:
dosbox:any winbind
Recommended packages:
fonts-droid
The following packages will be upgraded:
wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64 wine1.6-i386:i386
3 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 154 not to upgrade.
Need to get 32.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 5,120 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 wine1.6-i386 i386 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14.2 [15.7 MB]
Get:2 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 wine1.6 amd64 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14.2 [864 kB]
Get:3 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 wine1.6-amd64 amd64 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu14.2 [16.1 MB]
Fetched 32.7 MB in 1min 41s (322 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 251709 files and directories currently installed.)
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