How do I remove the wine configuration and applications in my user home directory.

Asked by Barry

I installed Wine on my Ubuntu 7.04 PIII 700 system. I then downloaded Quicktime and ran it causing my system to lock up. I uninstalled wine but it left the wine configuration and applications in my user home directory. How do I remove these files? I tried to reinstall wine and then unistall the quicktime but it would only reinstall quicktime no matter what I did. I have uninstalled wine but the wine configuration and quicktime files remain.

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
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I am new to Ubuntu. How do I remove files from my home directory.

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said :
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if you want to get rid of wine configs, go into a terminal and type
'rm -rf ~/.wine'

that should delete the wine configs in your user area

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
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When I typed the above referenced comand I got the following responce: No such file or directory

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Sam Cater (wraund-deactivatedaccount) said :
#4

try

rm -rf .wine

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
#5

How do I know it has worked? After I hit enter all I get is the blinking prompt.

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m4v (m4v) said :
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normally you don't get a message when it works, but try in your home folder

ls .wine

if you get a "no such file or directory" message, then the command worked and deleted .wine configs

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
#7

Thank You m4v3rick and Sam Cater for your help. I am new to Ubuntu and am very impressed with the way it runs and the way the members help each other solve problems. Thanks again

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Raúl González Duque (zootropo) said :
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If you don't like the command line you could have removed the directory using Nautilus.

Just use Control + H so that the hidden files and directories are shown.

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
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I don't mind using the command line. However, tell me how and when to use Control +H to show hidden files and directories. I would like to know for future reference.
Thanks

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
#10

I reinstalled wine. How do I get wine and any windows programs to show up in the Ubuntu 7.04 Applications list?

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Barry (bgreenebaum) said :
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I asked this as a new question.