Wine is not working. How can I uninstall / reinstall?

office 2007 won't run under linux/ubuntu.

if you don't like openoffice, you might want to try the abiword word processor. it should be in the software center or synaptic package manager.

@marcus: "office 2007 won't run under linux/ubuntu."

Actually, it appears that it is recently possible to get it to run, and reasonably well. The Wine AppDB shows Microsoft Office 2007 test results as "Gold" for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992&iTestingId=58143). This was with Wine 1.3.5, so it might be necessary to install the Wine 1.3 beta, using the instructions at http://www.winehq.org/download/deb.

@Dan: As marcus aurelius suggests, you may want to try AbiWord. Also, the way OpenOffice.org does bullets and numbering is customizable, so if you can be more specific about how its default configuration is inadequate, you might be able to receive advice about how to make it work the way you need. Since that's a separate topic from reinstalling Wine (and also separate from the topic of running Microsoft Word with Wine), you'll probably get best results if you open a new question to ask about that.

the problem with openoffice isn't that the bullets aren't customizable. the problem is that if you're typing in list form, it automatically brings up the outline/bullet toolbar right on top of what you're typing and blocking it and it forces notes to be bulleted. this featured cannot be disabled. as well, if you edit a list that wasn't bulleted, it will automatically apply bullets. totally frustrating and not usable to a student taking notes in class.

personally, i find writer to be a horrible program that is extremely difficult to use and has a steep learning curve.

abiword is better, but the screen rendering of typefaces and justification isn't very good and it doesn't redraw the screen very well when you move up and down the page.

@marcus: " this featured cannot be disabled."

Sure it can! Format > AutoCorrect > While Typing (uncheck the box).

Most people probably don't want *any* automatic formatting when note-taking, but if you do, then you can keep that box checked and instead go to Format > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options... and customize it however you want.

try apt-get remove wine

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> Eliah Kagan proposed the following answer:
> @marcus: " this featured cannot be disabled."
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> Sure it can! Format > AutoCorrect > While Typing (uncheck the box).
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> Most people probably don't want *any* automatic formatting when note-
> taking, but if you do, then you can keep that box checked and instead go
> to Format > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options... and customize it
> however you want.
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If you really do want to uninstall wine in a way that might make it work better when you reinstall it, then you'll want to do a complete removal, to get rid of all configuration files and force them to be recreated when Wine is reinstalled. I strongly, recommend doing "rm -rf ~/.wine" first, as Emre AYTAÇ indicated. Without that, even a complete removal may not fix your problem.

To do a complete removal, you can go to the Synaptic Package Manager, click on the check-box to the left of the "wine" package, and click "Mark for Complete Removal", and then click Apply.

To do a complete removal from the command line, use the command:

sudo apt-get purge wine

The command "sudo apt-get remove wine" will leave the configuration files. This is normally the right way to remove packages (usually it is not necessary or desirable to remove all configuration files), but in this case, a complete removal is more likely to produce the desired effect.

@eliah
unselecting the bullet thing in autocorrect caused other problems which are just as big a nuisance. however, i notice that the bulleting issue and the autocorrect issue had be fixed in libreoffice 3.3

@marcus
I haven't had any problems when disabling AutoCorrect altogether, but I have not tried changing the settings with respect to bullets in the AutoCorrect Options. What were the issues?

Thanks Emre AYTAÇ, that solved my question.