PlayOnLinux "Not available"

[rc45]

Hi All,
I was looking forward to installing PlayOnLinux on my new Cinnamon 20.2 setup, but Software Manager says it's "Not available" - can someone please tell me why this might be?
Thanks in advance.

[kc1di]

Hello,
Playonlinux is available in my software manager under games. But you should be able to install it from a terminal or synaptic package manager as well.
In a terminal do this

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install playonlinux

Good luck.

[rc45]

Thanks for answering.
When I do as you suggest, the computer says it will remove lots of packages e.g. audacity, firefox, gimp, libreoffice & loads of other things - what on earth is that about??

[mikeflan]

the computer says it will remove lots of packages e.g. audacity, firefox, gimp, libreoffice & loads of other things

That is a great summary, and we like summaries. But we also like details. Can you post the exact output?

[rc45]

OK, here goes:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gstreamer1.0-vaapi libaribb24-0 libdca0 libfaad2 libgssdp-1.2-0
  libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libgupnp-1.2-0 libgupnp-igd-1.0-4 libilmbase24
  libjcat1 libkate1 libmjpegutils-2.1-0 libmodplug1 libmpcdec6
  libmpeg2encpp-2.1-0 libmplex2-2.1-0 libnice10 libofa0 libopenexr24
  libqt5concurrent5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libsoundtouch1 libspandsp2
  libsrt1 libsrtp2-1 libunshield0 libusrsctp1 libvo-aacenc0 libvo-amrwbenc0
  libwildmidi2 libzbar0 unshield
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-wine icoutils imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 jq
  libavcodec58 libfaudio0 libgpg-error-l10n libjq1 liblqr-1-0
  libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libnetpbm10 libonig5
  libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libstb0 libvkd3d1
  libwine netpbm python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion python2 python2-minimal
  python2.7 python2.7-minimal wine wine64
Suggested packages:
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl imagemagick-doc
  autotrace enscript ffmpeg gimp gnuplot grads graphviz hp2xx html2ps
  libwmf-bin mplayer povray radiance texlive-base-bin transfig ufraw-batch
  libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
  scrot winbind wx3.0-doc python2-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binfmt-support
  q4wine winetricks wine-binfmt dosbox exe-thumbnailer | kio-extras
  wine64-preloader
Recommended packages:
  libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libcapi20-3 libodbc1 libosmesa6 wine32
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  appstream audacity baobab bluez-cups brltty caribou celluloid clipit
  dconf-cli easytag ffmpegthumbnailer firefox fprintd frozen-bubble fwupd
  fwupd-signed galculator gdb gimp gimp-help-en gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gnome-calendar
  gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-logs gnome-power-manager
  gnome-session-bin gnome-session-canberra gnome-settings-daemon
  gnome-system-monitor gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-packagekit
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps gtk2-engines
  gtk2-engines-murrine gucharmap hexchat hypnotix kerneloops libavcodec-extra
  libavcodec-extra58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7 libavformat58 libbabeltrace1
  libchromaprint1 libdmapsharing-3.0-2 libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 libfprint-2-2
  libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin1 libgegl-0.4-0 libgimp2.0 libgrilo-0.3-0 libgsound0
  libibus-1.0-5 libmpv1 libnotify-bin libopenjfx-java libopenjfx-jni
  libproxy1-plugin-gsettings libreoffice-draw libreoffice-gnome
  libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-impress libwmf0.2-7-gtk lmemory
  mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers mint-meta-codecs nemo-share
  network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome
  network-manager-pptp-gnome onboard openjfx pavucontrol pdfsam plymouth-label
  quadrapassel seahorse session-migration simple-scan strawberry
  system-tools-backends timeshift transmission-gtk vlc vlc-plugin-base
  vlc-plugin-video-output xdg-user-dirs-gtk xnview xorg xplayer-thumbnailer
  xviewer-plugins xwayland
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-wine icoutils imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16 jq
  libavcodec58 libfaudio0 libgpg-error-l10n libjq1 liblqr-1-0
  libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libnetpbm10 libonig5
  libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libstb0 libvkd3d1
  libwine netpbm playonlinux python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion python2
  python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal wine wine64
0 to upgrade, 31 to newly install, 97 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 44.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 322 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I'm only new to Linux, but to my amateur eye it looks like it wants to remove a whole lot of important stuff in order to install PlayOnLinux, and I have no idea why.
Thanks in advance.

[MikeNovember]

Hi,

1st part of the output:

apt says "The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:" and then "Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them".

So, the installation procedure of PlayOnLinux will not uninstall these packages from your system.

Simply, you have in your system some packages which are no longer needed, and this is not related to PlayOnLinux.

You can keep them, or remove them with 'sudo apt autoremove'.

2nd part of the output:

PlayOnLinux will be installed with some packages it needs. Suggested packages and recommended ones are also listed.

However, the abnormal thing is the list of packages that will be removed: "appstream ... xwayland". There is no reason apt removes these 97 packages when installing PlayOnLinux!

What is exactly the command you typed in the terminal?

Regards,

MN

PS: When I try to install PlayOnLinux 4.3.4 (the one in the distro) with Synaptic under Mint 20.2 Mate, Synaptic wants to install 220 packages more,but DOES NOT want to remove any. What does happen if you try to install POL with Synaptic?

[rc45]

Thanks for replying.
I entered exactly what kc1di suggested.
If I try on Synaptic, it says a very similar thing (see screenshot). Weird.

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Can you show output of command ?

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inxi -Fxxxrz

[rc45]

Here it is:

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System:    Kernel: 5.11.0-27-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 
           wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 82HS v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ITL05 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ITL05 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO 
           v: FXCN24WW date: 01/15/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 52.6 Wh condition: 53.2/52.6 Wh (101%) volts: 13.1/11.5 
           model: Sunwoda L19D3PD6 serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 44851 
           Speed: 3831 MHz min/max: 400/4700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3583 2: 3532 3: 3434 
           4: 4251 5: 3788 6: 3623 7: 3775 8: 4371 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:9a49 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a0c8 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-27-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a0f0 
           IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 208.00 GiB (43.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA512QFD size: 476.94 GiB 
           speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 467.96 GiB used: 104.00 GiB (22.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
           Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Logitech M105 Optical Mouse type: Mouse 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 2.0 chip ID: 046d:c077 
           Device-2: 3-5:3 info: Syntek Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo rev: 2.0 
           chip ID: 174f:243f 
           Device-3: 3-8:4 info: LighTuning EgisTec EH576 type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A 
           rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1c7a:0576 
           Device-4: 3-10:5 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb rev: 2.0 chip ID: 8087:0aaa 
           Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 41.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint-packages uma main upstream import backport
           2: deb http: //mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http: //mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http: //mirror.intergrid.com.au/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 264 Uptime: 3m Memory: 15.20 GiB used: 1.20 GiB (7.9%) Init: systemd v: 245 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client inxi: 3.0.38 

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sudo apt-get check

check
check is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache and checks
for broken dependencies.

man apt-get

[wbrells]

I'm having the same problem trying to install PlayOnLinux on Mint Cinnamon "uma" and wondered if anyone has found a way of installing PlayOnLinux without (possibly) having a lot of critical packages removed? BTW there seems to be a similar problem ("Not available") when trying to install Winetricks... Thanks!

[mikeflan]

Hi wbrells. Welcome to the forum. Please start your own topic. You can reference this one if needed by pasting the URL in the new topic.