uninstall winetricks packages

K4Z00 · Post by **K4Z00** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:56 pm

used:
sh winetricks mdac28
can see it installed to /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files and windows and winetrickscache

it hasn't resolved the issues i'm having
so how do i remove the mdac28 package?
do i have to manually remove the files
or is there an opposite to sh winetricks mdac28?

also...
does rm -rf ~/.wine put wine back to it's initial install state?
ie removes all winetricks packages
as well as programs installed
and lets me start fresh
or does it uninstall wine itself?

am only testing one program
this might be helpful in trying a clean install
when i mess things up again
thanks for the continuing assistance!

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:36 pm

does rm -rf ~/.wine put wine back to it's initial install state?
ie removes all winetricks packages
as well as programs installed

Yes this removes everything you installed under wine as the current
user except it does not remove shortcuts from your window manager.

John

K4Z00 · Post by **K4Z00** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:50 pm

thanks john
that information is invaluable
vitamin had discussed it
and i understand it better now

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:12 pm

K4Z00 wrote:

thanks john
that information is invaluable
vitamin had discussed it
and i understand it better now

If you want to be able to go back to the .wine you set up you can use:

code:
mv .wine{,.backup}

This moves the .wine directory to .wine.backup

Then you run:

code:

wineboot

This should create a new .wine with no installed programs.

James McKenzie

K4Z00 · Post by **K4Z00** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:46 am

James McKenzie wrote: If you want to be able to go back to the .wine you set up you can use:

code:
mv .wine{,.backup}

This moves the .wine directory to .wine.backup

need to ask a rudimentary question
why the "," before .backup?
why is it there, what does it do?!
(apart from enable it to work!)

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:26 pm

K4Z00 wrote:

James McKenzie wrote:

If you want to be able to go back to the .wine you set up you can use:

code:
mv .wine{,.backup}

This moves the .wine directory to .wine.backup

need to ask a rudimentary question
why the "," before .backup?
why is it there, what does it do?!
(apart from enable it to work!)

It forces an append of the following information as a part of regular
expressions, which is what we are using. Think of the {,} as short
hand. If I were to give you the longer and still correct version of the
command it would look like:

mv .wine .wine.backup

James McKenzie