[Wine] Still can't install from NanoCorp

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 12:34:57 CDT 2010


>     sorry for not knowing but what's a wineprefix? How do I re-install? Will
> it lose d3dx9? Tks. Have to uninstall first or can it be re-installed over
> existing one.
>

A clean wineprefix erases your virtual windows install. Yes you will
have to reinstall d3dx9.

To create a clean prefix

rm -rf ~/.wine

from a terminal. Note this will not delete menu items for installed
applications under wine but the applications will be gone..

More info about this is here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391

John



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