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Cannot totally delete Wine

Asked by Ampers

I have Wine on Ubuntu 9.04 and loaded up version 4 of AZZCardFile.exe.

It wasn't running smoothly so I thought I would load v3 of the same software instead.

I went into Wine and uninstalled v4 and then tried to load v3 but a message kept coming up saying CardFile was already instealled.

I then "completely removed" wine with Synaptic but Wine was still there under the Applications menu, but all that was there was: Wine/Programs/AZZ cardfile which is the program I need removing.

I tried reloading Wine again, on top, but the cardfile program still shows in wine. I have now reached the state where I have deleted Wine again and the program is still there.

I have tried "sudo apt-get autoremove wine" but this does notdoes not help in this instance.

Any further suggestions please?

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Mohamed Zaian (mzaian) said : 		#1

try to do the following
apt-get remove --purge wine
apt-get autoremove --purge
dpkg --purge wine

also after that you need to delete your wine configuration files so go to your home directory and

rm -rf .wine

this should solve your problem

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Ampers (ampers) said : 		#2

Thanks Mahamed,

That wouldn't work as it stands, but I added sudo ot the top three as:

sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo dpkg --purge wine
rm -rf .wine

I then rebooted but Wine still shows progrtam/azzcardfile there.

Ampers

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Mohamed Zaian (mzaian) said : 		#3

Welcome Ampers, wine is still showing where in your applications menu or what? if it is displaying in your applications menu, open terminal and as user type
alacarte
using this application you will manage which applications could appear, otherwise if the program you installed using wine in your desktop delete it manually

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cogadh (cogadh) said : 		#4

When you uninstall applications from Wine or remove Wine itself, the Applications menu shortcuts are always left behind. You will need to remove them yourself manually using the menu editor. However, if you intend to re-install any of the applications, it is easiest to just "uncheck" (i.e. hide) the application entry in the menu editor, rather than delete it. When you delete it, the menu option will not re-appear if the application is re-installed and you will need to manually edit a menu configuration file to get it back.

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Ampers (ampers) said : 		#5

Not really solved; I reloaded Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, formatting the hard drive, and loaded Wine up. Then tried to load up this exe program and the same note flashed up - saying it is already loaded.

I have come to the conclusion it has done something funny so as LIFE IS TOO SHORT (at 70) I have thrown it out and will use another program.

Ampers