[Wine] How does one remove an intallation of Wine for one user only

[James McKenzie]

Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:03 PM, pj <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I inadvertently installed Wine as root after installing it as the user. I would like to remove the root installation, but not touch the user installation. Is there a special way of doing this, or does one just delete the folder?
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>> kind regards,
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> Depends on how you ran it. If you logged in as root, then the wine
> folder for root is under /root/.wine. If you used 'sudo wine
> program.exe', then the user's install was used, and you'd need to
> remove $HOME/.wine.
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If the user ran Wine using sudo wine program.name then the command to 
remove the Wine directory with borked permissions is:

sudo rm -rf $HOME/.wine

This will remove any and all installed programs under Wine as well but 
will NOT remove their menu entries in KDE or Gnome.

James McKenzie