[Wine] Re: Uninstall old wine version and install new version

Bakshara wineforum-user at winehq.org
Fri Jul 31 22:30:28 CDT 2009


austin987 wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Bakshara<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> ...
> rmdir only removes empty directories. Use 'rm -rf ~/.wine' instead.
> ... 
> -Austin


From: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo

> Wine HowTo
> 
> Before you install Wine, make sure that there is no previous Wine installation on your system, either from a package or from source. If you haven't yet installed Wine, you should be fine. See the Removing old Wine versions chapter in the User Guide for details.Many Linux distributions come with an included Wine package, but due to Wine's rapid development rate these are usually old and often broken versions. It is best to uninstall your distribution's included package versions and update to the latest Wine version available here.

That says, 
> 
> To uninstall Wine from source, once again navigate to the same source folder that you used to install Wine using the terminal. Then, run the following command:
> 
> Code:
> 
> # make uninstall
> 
> 
> 
> 

The response I get from trying is:
> 
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall ./wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall ./wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall ~/.wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall ~/wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall /wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# make uninstall wine
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> [root at Bakshara lib]# 
> 


Doing

> 
> 
> Code:
> 
> rm -rf ~/.wine
> 
> 
> 
> Gives me this, but still has 386 items under it.
> 
> Code:
> 
> [root at Bakshara lib]# rm -rf ~/.wine
> [root at Bakshara lib]# 
> 
> 
> 
> 








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