Cannot uninstall wine programs

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Post by dimesio » Sat Sep 20, pm. Post by turboscrew » Fri Feb 27, pm. You need an 'inquiring mind' to progress with Linux to any degree; you mustn't be afraid to ask questions lots of them! By the time you've finished, you'll have a system you can make sit up and dance I hate to say this, but with Wine being the 'can of worms' that it is, you might be better off simply to re-install from scratch, and start afresh.

I lost track of the number of times that I 'broke' my system, and had to re-install, in the early days And you tend to remember your mistakes more clearly that way! If you do that, before attempting to use Wine again, do your homework. It'll also tell you what versions of Wine have been tested out with that application, and also on what distros the attempt was made. You may find you need to use one of the newer 'beta' versions of Wine, rather than simply using the version in the Software Centre.

I can't really add any more than that, I'm afraid. Good luck with whatever you decide to do, and don't forget; we're one big happy family on here And you'll need plenty of patience, too, if you're not that technically-minded It's worth it in the end. Regards, Mike. Thanks for the info, Bucky. Will try that 'tab,tab,tab' thing you suggested.

And thank you, Mike, for the info on Wine. I actually did read a bit about it and knew that there have been issues with it sometime but, as I really wanted to get my ereader Kobo up and running on the system so that I could download books from the library, this seemed like the only way to get the ADE and Kobo apps that I needed.

However this has now become a real hair-pulling issue. Am thinking of using the Kobo as a door stop these days and just going back to the old fashioned hard copy kind of books, I am seriously tempted to just drop the whole thing as everything else is working great.

I hate having 'loose ends' out there but, if I never use Wine to install any more apps highly unlikely at this point! For now unless you think that I really DO need to get this Wine thing rectified I would really like to just leave sleeping dogs lie. Maybe just run an 'autoclean' command and see what happens.

And, yes, I agree Between this forum, online searches, YouTube and the I really do not want to ever go back to Windows so will continue to plug away. Keep on pluggin'! Yes, once Wine is installed it is virtually impossible to completely eradicate all trace of it. You can, though, as you mention, just pretend it is not there.

Henceforth, the actions are simple. You may not see all your software listed. You might need to run: wine64 uninstaller. It is possible you still don't see your software listed for some odd reason. That can happen. From that point, it's just a regular Windows tree, and you can delete folders, including the contents of Program Files.

Of course, this isn't the ideal way, because you will still have orphaned menu entries and shortcuts. What you can do in that case is delete entries from user. These files act as sort of registry database for your installed WINE software.