[Wine] It gets worse (was Re: How do you make wine do real uninstalls? )

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:57:59 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
	[....]
>> 	Another try, another failure. All four were still in the
>> uninstaller. After logging out and back in. (They were, at least, *not*
>> offered under programs any more.)
>> 
>> 	Rebooting -- the last ditch. Stay tuned.
> 
> 	The cat came back. Even after a reboot, wine uninstaller *still*
> thinks those four things are there.

	Thinking that at least the absence of any offerings from wine > 
programs meant something, I put TopoUSA2008 into a USB DVD drive plugged 
directly into the same machine (the Thinkpad30, which has a serial port, 
and runs F8). I told it to install. It gave me a choice of remove or 
repair -- *not* install. Having tried repair last time it did that, and 
failed, I told it remove. It started showing a graph telling how much it 
was *adding*.

	I used the workspace switcher to go to a terminal (already open), 
did uname -a, went back -- and it froze. I force-killed it and tried 
again. This time it finished quickly, telling me it had *repaired* the 
app. But it demanded adobe, so I force-killed it again. It's not in the 
program listing -- there is none.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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