[Wine] How do you make wine do real uninstalls?
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Wed Sep 24 15:37:16 CDT 2008
I have tried installing various GPS/topo map software suites on
four Fedora machines under wine. On three of them, the install claims to
succeed; the suite fails even to launch; I try to uninstall it; the
uninstall either admits failure, or pretends to succeed while leaving the
software still there and clickable (but, of course, not launchable).
On one, I then ran a Fedora search (beagle, I suppose) against
the filesystem, checking for any such software still there; found none;
did "yum remove wine" followed by "yum install wine" -- and found the new
wine still offering the worthless installs.
Sometimes, in fact, the install tries to *re*-install, even
though I have called it in the first place from wine's uninstall function.
I realize the fault is most likely in Windows (XPPro/SP2 here),
or in the software itself.
But even so, there must be a way for linux to trash the whole
b'ilin' and start over ....
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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