[NTLUG:Discuss] Wine Install Uninstallable

[Ralph Green]

Howdy,
  I have not installed wine for a while.  I don't find the need to run
apps designed for such an insecure operating system.  But, maybe I can
help.  It seems to me that you may be asking for one of two things.

  The first would be to remove the wine apps from your main menu.  The
path to this depends on which desktop environment you are using.  Are
you using Unity, Gnome 2, Gnome 3, KDE 4, or something else?

  The second part is easier.  Wine creates a directory where it stores
the files the Windows programs use.  You should be able to figure it
out by looking at the details of one of the Wine programs it
installed.  Open a terminal prompt and navigate to that directory.
Look around and you should see a lot of file names and directories
under it that are familiar to Windows users.  Once you find that
directory, and since you plan to reinstall Wine, just delete
everything in it.

Good luck,
Ralph


On 5/24/12, James Hines <jimhines10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I need help on uninstalling a wine Installation from Fedora 16.  I'm a
> newbe here so please show grace on this.   I installed wine using the yum
> command "yum install wine."  After i did, I went online and determined that
> I had erroneously installed EVERY wine app that YUM had found.  The
> sub-menu only shows the following items installed:
>
> Notepad
> Regedit
> Wine Boot
> Wine Configuration
> Wine File
> Wine Help
> Wine OLE View
> Wine Software Installer
> Wine Wordpad
>
> I've even got a winemine game on my pc now, lol.  Realizing my error before
> I configured the pregrams (I already recieved messages about possible
> conflicts), I tried to uninstall the program. It didn't show up in the
> installed programs since I hadn't yet configured it?  I tried to delete the
> files via the "yum remove wine" command and several others.  No matter what
> I did, I could not get the files off my system.  Once I do get this
> un-done, I intend to install only the wine meta package.  One would
> probably think I had a little too much wine before the installation but
> I'll need a bottle after this is over..
>
> At any rate, anyone have any ideas on how to get the files off my system?
> I'm afraid with all the wine apps installed, I'd have a nightmare if I went
> through with the configuration.
>
> Jim
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