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Wine Not working O_o

Asked by Theatre-X

I am using Ubuntu Karmic and for some reason Wine is not working and I tried to reinstall it but it keeps giving me an error when I try to install it from the wine site saying that it's already installed when I uninstalled it already because it said it was "1.0.0.1" or something when I checked in the "About" tab in Wine.

How do I FULLY remove Wine so I can install it again? O_o

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Isak Frants (isakfrants) said : 		#1

This will uninstall everything with wine and delete all your wine related stuff from your home folder.
sudo apt-get purge wine wine1.2
rm -r ~/.wine

Delete all old .deb packages.
sudo apt-get clean

Add wine ppa, instructions here: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
After that, do a:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.2

Does wine work now?

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Theatre-X (theatrex) said : 		#2

Wine is installed and it works but there is no menu entry in the
"Applications" menu. How do I add it? I've tried right clicking and
selecting "Edit Menus" but it's not there.

Thanks! :)

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said : 		#3

Wine is not a program you can run by itself and will therefor not show up the "Applications" menu. If you install a Windows program using Wine it should however show up in the "Wine" menu in "Applications". where you should also be able to find the Wine Explorer, Regedit and so forth.

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