[Wine] Re: Cleaning up a WINE install.
vitamin
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Mon Apr 21 12:07:30 CDT 2008
Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:40:24 -0300
> Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install
> > DirectX. I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE. Is there any way to
> > clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to
> > reinstall all my software?
> >
> > Owen Stairs
> >
>
> You can try to remove .wine/drive_c/windows and .wine/drive_c/program files
> and then run wineprefixcreate
> perhaps that will help
> --
> Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
>
In case you didn't know that is what 'rm -rf ~/.wine' does, plus few more helpful things. All in one command! Removing files without cleaning registry is WRONG and will harm even windows. It for sure _WILL_ break Wine or rather programs that see stuff in registry yet can't find it on the disk.
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