[PLUG] Can't get rid of this

Chuck Hast wchast at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 03:39:06 UTC 2017


Well, I suppose I can just remove the original wine install and that will
take
care of it. This appears to be a recurring issue as I see that it appears to
appear and disappear every so often, so who knows what is going on. They
fix it and then out comes a new update and someone breaks it again.

I will give Playonlinux a try.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:27 AM, benjamin barber <starworks5 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There are some programs that handle wine dependencies and versions better
> IMHO, try Playonlinux
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> > I installed Wine on this machine. The MS fonts did not download, went on
> > line
> > and saw that there was an issue with the download script and followed the
> > instructions and pulled it down manually, but I still get this silly
> thing
> > popping
> > up, can not figure out how to kill it:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------------
> > Failure to download extra data files
> >
> > The following packages requested additional data downloads after package
> > installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be
> > processed.
> >
> > ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> >
> > The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download
> > again now.  Running this command requires an active Internet connection.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------------
> >
> > I figured that the manual download would satisfy it, but appears it did
> > not. I
> > think it maybe that the manual download was a newer set of files.
> >
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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better.
The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on.



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