On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:32 PM, L. Rahyen <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First, login as simple user, there is no need to run as root without good > reasons. Then run this: > > rm -rf ~/.wine > > If this gives you an error then run "sudo rm -rf ~/.wine". Correction. The -f flag on rm suppresses all warnings, so you have to actively check to see if .wine got deleted, e.g. ls -ld ~/.wine If that shows anything, it's probably because root owns your .wine directory, so rm -rf didn't work. To delete files you created as root, you have to delete them as root.