[Wine] Noob question - files

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 17:35:14 CDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, martin5349 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello
>
>  I'm new to wine and I have a simple question. When uninstalling previously installed windows program, does wine remove all the files? I mean if I don't fill my system with garbage installing win programs.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Martin
>

Uninstallers don't work too well in wine, but aren't too high of a
priority. To remove all apps, run:
$ rm -rf ~/.wine

If you're going to be installing/uninstalling programs a lot, you
might be better off putting each app in its own prefix, see the FAQ
for details.



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