-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2010 07:19 AM, jotto wrote: > I installed wine on my desktop running ubuntu 10.04. All was working fine until I installed battlefield 1942. I had an issue so decided to uninstall wine and try again. > > When I reinstalled wine, I get no Programs item in the menu. I can browse to the folder when browsing the c drive. > I started to uninstall BF1942 to try again and had a power cut during the process. > > Is there any way to completely remove wine and all its files and foilders so I can start again? > > Thanks in advance from a complete n00b! Hi jotto, If you have more then one Windows program you like to use with WINE, you can install them in separate locations, thus isolating them from the effects and problems you have with other Windows programs you've installed. The $HOME/.wine directory is the default location where your programs will be installed unless you specify another location with the $WINEPREFIX environment variable. Thus executing the program's installer like so, shell> WINEPREFIX=$HOME/myprogram wine Setup.exe with cause all the folders and files for your installation to be deposited in the folder called "myprogram" under your home folder. If you look at the properties of the launcher in your GNU+Linux system menu, you will even notice that the WINEPREFIX has been included automatically. This way, if you have 10 Windows programs you like, and you don't want one of them to bork the remaining 9, installing each of them into separate prefixes will allow you to isolate them from each other. The way I do it is to create a folder called "wine" in my home folder, and then make prefixes under that, like so: $HOME/wine/prog1 $HOME/wine/prog2 ... $HOME/wine/progn WINE also automatically creates the extra folders you name in your prefix if they don't exist to begin with. Please note, uninstalling WINE and reinstalling it at the same verison with the same package provided by your distribution isn't going to have any effect on your system. Any changes that might occur will probably come from your distribution's package manager. Otherwise, all you are doing is deleting and then reinstituting the same exact files. Deleting the entire prefix folder for a particular program, and then reinstalling it in a fresh prefix will at least reset the filesystem and registry within that prefix. Bryan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM5HC9AAoJEHblvm1J+WqMvH8H/2PbApPBxzycXNzlCzrDbWnb sSjbythrya3eB7em+HTg9qhp/3owg0YuUrJvUlxet11Ofc9Os1MjfLBcKIcJlMTR wvNWE1Ty0YzQhC4rANKLC/PnURk5STUzEtSXAnvlnAepafaKH9W1O6uAo9G2iZUo 0IPnNVvwlEi3uw8/j6uhKT44T7X0Ee9aJhzL7ZAM8CY4JDym0AeZBoOk1IZl7d1i ozpaLPuj3a/wdZmXoxErCMCvd13umqJJq9hHD5E5SqL0eyPZzabiOxQWqYhE5top yK2ImvWz6B7fc3M07k489KUjBFznhmkJYTuGpu4FbmdB/82Zl1uBmrY9ik1jvDs= =2N8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
