I have a hard drive which recently died, instead of paying for a new copy of Windows I went with an Ubuntu distribution.
I've been trying to run a couple different .exe files through WINE, which hasn't been working. I figured I could try a fresh reinstall of wine and ran through these steps as proposed by an article on PCsuggest posted in 2018:
sudo apt-get purge wine wine-*
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
rm -rf ~/.wine/
rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine*
I then ran through the steps laid out to install Wine from the WineHQ site for Ubuntu 18.04. Which went well up until the
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
line, which didn't seem to work. Nevertheless, I'm pig-headed enough to keep moving forwards, so then I tried sudo apt update, which definitely didn't work. That command returned this:
Ign:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-bionic InRelease
Hit:3 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:5 https://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Hit:6 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:7 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:8 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:9 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Ign:12 https://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:13 https://ppa.launchpad.net/diesch/testing/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ign:14 https://ppa.launchpad.net/falk-t-j/qtsixa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:4 https://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease [15.4 kB]
Err:4 https://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3BDAAC08614C4B38
Get:11 https://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease [20.7 kB]
Err:11 https://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 83FBA1751378B444
Err:15 https://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Err:16 https://ppa.launchpad.net/falk-t-j/qtsixa/ubuntu bionic Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3BDAAC08614C4B38
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu bionic
InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 83FBA1751378B444
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/falk-t-j/qtsixa/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
I should mention, earlier the problem was a broken line in the sources.list file related to WINE. Which I fixed by realizing that (I think?) I had a sources.list file for Ubuntu 16.04, which is the version I installed initially onto my laptop from a flashdrive before updating to 18.04. So I moseyed on over to https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/ and downloaded a sources.list file for 18.04 and replaced the old one. I have both files backed up as text files on my desktop so if I need to put that 16.04 file back in, I think I can do that.
Any help would be appreciated.
