stravanasu

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  • stravanasuOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlWine 10.2 suddenly broken (solved)
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    9 days ago

    Edit: explicitly installing 10.1 with

    sudo apt install wine-staging=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-amd64=10.1~focal-1 wine-staging-i386:i386=10.1~focal-1 winehq-staging=10.1~focal-1
    

    worked.

    Thank you for the help!

    But I can’t remove wine-staging, at least not via apt:

    $ sudo apt remove wine-staging-i386
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
     wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-i386 (= 10.2~focal-2)
                    Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but 10.2~focal-1 is to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
    

    So no go there. --fix-broken doesn’t work either:

    $ sudo apt --fix-broken install
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following additional packages will be installed:
      wine-staging-amd64
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      wine-staging-amd64
    1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 9 not to upgrade.
    3 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0 B/114 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 15.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    (Reading database ... 393922 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking wine-staging-amd64 (10.2~focal-2) over (10.2~focal-1) ...
    dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite '/opt/wine-staging/bin/wine', which is also in package wine-staging-i386:i386 10.2~focal-2
    dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-staging-amd64_10.2~focal-2_amd64.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    

    Any idea on how to remove Wine manually, bypassing apt?


  • stravanasuOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlWine 10.2 suddenly broken (solved)
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    9 days ago

    The problem is that the whole apt system seems to be broken. It doesn’t let me install other packages, and I can’t even uninstall wine. So I wonder if any fixes from wine will work. It looks like this needs the user’s manual intervention.

    $ sudo apt upgrade 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
     wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but 10.2~focal-1 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
    
    $ sudo apt remove wine-staging-amd64
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
     wine-staging : Depends: wine-staging-amd64 (= 10.2~focal-2) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
    

    but sudo apt --fix-broken install does not solve anything…











  • The question of what an electron really is, is still open as far as I know. Even the question of whether it’s a “particle”, is still open. In many or most theories the question of “what it is” is somewhat bypassed. In quantum field theory you describe electrons as a field (like the electromagnetic field), but all fields have the peculiar property that they show energy exchanges in very localized, point-like regions of space – that’s why you can think of them as particles sometimes. Take a look at Wald’s book to get an idea.

    There are even still open theories that try to describe electrons as mini charged black holes; not to speak about strings, and so on…



  • The usual misleading sensationalistic title. It isn’t the “shape of the electron” at all. A less misleading – but still not quite correct – explanation is that they have determined the statistical distribution of electron quantum states in a material. Very roughly speaking, it tells us where we’re more or less likely to find an electron in the material, and in what kind of state. Somewhat very distantly like a population density graph on a geographical map. Determining such a population density doesn’t mean “revealing the shape of a person”.

    The paper can also be found on arXiv. What they determine is the so-called quantum geometric tensor. I find the paper’s abstract also misleading:

    The Quantum Geometric Tensor (QGT) is a central physical object…

    but it’s a statistical object more than a “physical” one.

    It’s a very neat and important study, and I don’t understand the need to be so misleading about it :(