jjmckenzie wrote: > You stated you removed all of the wine packages, correct? If so, this > file or link should not exist. > > Can you try installing just the wine-devel or wine-development package > and run this command again? > > Thank you. > > James According to Steve Langasek (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/871083/comments/24) I should have used apt-get instead of aptitude. So, here I am using apt-get. Okay, here are the results (with no improvement): Code: john@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install wine1.3-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-exe-thumbnailer icoutils wine1.3 wine1.3-gecko winetricks Suggested packages: libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-exe-thumbnailer icoutils wine1.3 wine1.3-dev wine1.3-gecko winetricks 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 92 not upgraded. Need to get 1,756 kB/50.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 166 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe wine1.3-dev amd64 1.3.28-0ubuntu1 [1,756 kB] Fetched 1,756 kB in 7s (223 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package wine1.3. (Reading database ... 326109 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wine1.3 (from .../wine1.3_1.3.28-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package wine1.3-dev. Unpacking wine1.3-dev (from .../wine1.3-dev_1.3.28-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package wine1.3-gecko. Unpacking wine1.3-gecko (from .../wine1.3-gecko_1.3.0+1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package winetricks. Unpacking winetricks (from .../winetricks_0.0+20110629_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package icoutils. Unpacking icoutils (from .../icoutils_0.29.1-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gnome-exe-thumbnailer. Unpacking gnome-exe-thumbnailer (from .../gnome-exe-thumbnailer_0.8-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... Setting up wine1.3 (1.3.28-0ubuntu1) ... procps stop/waiting Setting up wine1.3-dev (1.3.28-0ubuntu1) ... Setting up wine1.3-gecko (1.3.0+1) ... Setting up winetricks (0.0+20110629) ... Setting up icoutils (0.29.1-1) ... Setting up gnome-exe-thumbnailer (0.8-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place john@desktop:~$ wine cmd bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory john@desktop:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/wine -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9688 2011-09-15 23:49 /usr/bin/wine john@desktop:~$