Wine Installation on Noble

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I always have a tough time getting wine installed correctly and I am doing a fresh install on Ubuntu MATE and I get this error. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

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This is the link with the install instructions I am following.

Suggestions?

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According to this link:

The HTTP 304 Not Modified redirection response status code indicates that there is no need to retransmit the requested resources.

This response code is sent when the request is a conditional request with an If-Modified-Since header ( the -N option in wget in this case ) and the condition evaluates to 'false'. It confirms that the resource cached by the client is still valid and that the server would have sent a 200 OK response with the resource if the condition evaluated to 'true'.

In other words:

You've already added the repository.

( If not, or if you want to unconditionally download and add it again,
don't use the -NP but only -P in you wget command and try again. )

Now you can start installing it by issuing:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
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Thanks for this... I assumed it was an error because when I run the next command, as you suggested, I get "Unable to locate package winehq-stable". I had to use staging and it worked.

However, I feel a bit silly that I did not look up the error code myself. It would have changed my original post.

Thanks again for the help.

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Hi, @GeekBone :slight_smile:

I don't use "Wine" - https://www.winehq.org/ . However - and to supplement the nice reply that @tkn has already given you in this topic - I remember that @radax05 published the following answer in another topic, 17 days ago (on 1st September 2024):

Let me quote here the relevant text concerning installing Wine, in Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS ("Noble Numbat"), from that @radax05's answer, in that other topic:

"(...)
I had to re-install

  • WineHQ - the "devel" version (required for Notepad++ and HeidiSQL) - the "stable" version did not install!

(...)"

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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Thanks Ric.

Interestingly, I read a post of yours yesterday where you were having problems installing MATE a while ago and just went back to windows. Glad you resolved it and thanks again for the information.

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Hi again, @GeekBone

You wrote:

You're welcome :slight_smile:

Hmm? You're definitely confusing me with someone else :slight_smile: I have several computers where I dual boot Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS ("Jammy Jellyfish") or Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS ("Noble Numbat") with Windows 10 or with Windows 11, but I definitely have NOT given up on Ubuntu MATE and there was never a time where I had problems installing Ubuntu MATE and just went back to Microsoft Windows :slight_smile:

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Ha! I think I need to work on my reading comprehension... or can I blame it on old age?

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No worries, @GeekBone :slight_smile: Thanks for clearing that up! Indeed, in that other discussion topic - "Tried to install Mate but it stayed in try it mode" - @nearlysociable was having trouble installing Ubuntu MATE 24.04 LTS ("Noble Numbat") and I tried to help him in that topic but, unfortunately, my efforts were unsuccessful. Understandably, @nearlysociable - who was very nice in that discussion topic - ended up giving up and went back to Windows 10.

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