[Wine] Re: n00b, how to uninstall wine completely and reinstall, Ubuntu.

jotto wineforum-user at winehq.org
Wed Nov 17 17:00:19 CST 2010


dimesio wrote:
> 
> jotto wrote:
> > When I installed wine, I used the Ubuntu Software Centre. I used this to uninstall.
> > 
> > I copied and paste'd all the above commands and it looked like wine was uninstalled....the .wine folder was missing etc BUT wine is still showing in my Applications menu and if I click on say the configure wine command...it runs the configuration app!!!!! How can this be if it is uninstalled????
> 
> The commands I linked you to delete the wineprefix and all menu entries made by Wine. To uninstall Wine, follow the instructions in the wiki entry immediately following the one linked to.


OK, it says, 

> 5.3. How do I uninstall Wine?
> 
> If you installed Wine with your distribution's package manager, use the package manager again to uninstall Wine. (If you installed Wine from source, then use make uninstall in the source directory to remove it.) 


I uninstalled via the software centre, how do I use the make uninstall command?

I googled and tried something like sudo apt-get remove but it told me wine wasnt installed.







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