uninstall hints

Andreas Mohr a.mohr at mailto.de
Fri Apr 6 17:07:42 CDT 2001


Hi all,

add Wine uninstall hints to README and wineinstall.

Andreas Mohr
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Index: README
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RCS file: /home/wine/wine/README,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 README
--- README	2001/03/08 01:14:13	1.22
+++ README	2001/04/06 23:03:28
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@
 
 5. SETUP
 
+Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation first !!
+Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall".
+
 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
 will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other
 needed files.
Index: tools/wineinstall
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/tools/wineinstall,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 wineinstall
--- tools/wineinstall	2001/02/12 18:10:43	1.19
+++ tools/wineinstall	2001/04/06 23:03:43
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@
   fi
 fi
 
+# check whether wine binary still available
+if [ -n "`which wine`" ]; then
+  echo "Warning !! wine binary (still) found, which may indicate"
+  echo "a (conflicting) previous installation."
+  echo "You might want to abort and uninstall Wine first."
+  std_sleep
+fi
+
 # run the configure script, if necessary
 
 if [ -f config.cache ] && [ -f Makefile ] && [ Makefile -nt configure ]


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