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

Gert van den Berg wine-users at mohag.net
Mon Aug 3 22:49:06 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 05:33, Bakshara<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Gert van den Berg,
>
>
>> You're running it as the wrong user. The above deleted root's default
>> WINEPREFIX.
>
> I am the only user.
>
> What is "$HOME?" How do I get to it?
>
$ echo $HOME
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Environment_Variables

> There are currently six "WINEPREFIX" files: three are "shell scrip", two are "Troff documents", and one is "Gzip archive."
> wineprefixcreate
> wineprefixcreate.1.gz
> wineprefixcreate.in
> wineprefixcreate.in
> wineprefixcreate.man.in
> wineprefixcreate.man.in
>
These are related to your Wine installation not the Wine settings /
data files that I commented on

If you want to remove / upgrade Wine itself: How did you install Wine?
If it was not from source, your distribution's documentation is
probably the place to start.



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