Removing the directory is almost always the wrong way to remove wine.
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<answer>
<para>
- All you have to do is to type:
- </para>
- <screen>
-rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine*
- </screen>
- <para>
- Make sure that you specify the exact path when using the powerful
- <command>rm -fR</command> command. If you are afraid that you might
- delete something important, or might otherwise delete other files
- within your file system, <command>cd</command> into each Wine
- sub directory singly and delete the files found there manually,
- one file or directory at a time.
- </para>
- <para>
- Neither the Wine developers and programmers, nor the Wine FAQ
- author/maintainer, can be held responsible for your deleting any
- files in your own file system.
+ It depends on how you installed. If you used an RPM, the right command is this:
</para>
+ <command>rpm -e wine (as root)</command>
+ <para>
+ If you installed from source (the .tar.gz file), the right
+ way to do it is to change to the root of the source tree (the directory with the configure script,
+ readme etc) then run as root:
+ </para>
+ <command>make uninstall</command>
</answer>
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