[Wine] Uninstalling programs - new user - can we manually remove?

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Todd <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi.
> I am still fairly new to using Ubuntu and Wine.
> In the past year I have been slowly migrating over to ubuntu and installed linus on all the computers in my home.
>
> One of these computers I installed linux on a partition so that i could still use windows programs to do my work with...
> http://www.orbofday.com/
>
> However, last night XP died on the one partition. Go figure. I have hated windows for a very long time... So now I am forced to install ubuntu on the entire drive because I am not going to buy win 7.
>
> Wine Looks promising though. I'm optimistic that I will still be able to make use of the win apps I like while working in a linux os.
>
> Here's the deal I installed a windows program using wine to test it out and it didn't work. Others have. No biggie. I tried uninstalling it, and it won't uninstall.
>
> I googled stuff. Someone said delete some registry stuff and it will uninstall. It didn't.
>
> So I tried cleaning it out manually to remove it. It didn't.
>
> Is there another simple method to force and uninstall of a program.
>
>
> I will be reformatting anyways but it would be nice to know for next time how to remove things well.
>

Read the wine FAQ. It's probably just stuck in the gnome menu and not
really installed. Having a shortcut does not necessarily mean an
application is installed.

Also if you wanted to remove all the applications you installed in
wine a 1 line command in the terminal does this.

rm ~/.wine

This however does not remove anything from the menu. The FAQ will
instruct you how to clean the menu.

John