wine missing from dashboard.Procedure to purge,start again?

[vector]

Ubuntu 14.4
wine installed using https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Application Zoom edit & share installed and working, (shortcut on desktop)
tried installing albumworksphotobooks.exe. failed with missing dll's
Went to uninstall it but wine nor wine config appears in the dashboard.
running winecfg from terminal produces wine config window but neither zoom nor albumworks applications appear.

Can i have a safe purge uninstall procedure for wine and its applications and I will try and start from scratch.

[dimesio]

Went to uninstall it but wine nor wine config appears in the dashboard.

Go back to https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu and read the notes just below the instructions you followed for installing the WineHQ package.

[vector]

Hi,
if your referring to the note

Menu items are not created for Wine's builtin programs (winecfg, etc.),

That clarifies the first part thanks
however
I did mention I ran winecfg from terminal, but none of the applications appear in the dialog window, ie I can't uninstall a windows app.
Something seems broken, no doubt a hang over from things done in previous posts
After looking in a number of places on the winehq site which state to uninstall old versions, none of them seem to point to an uninstall procedure. I am thus left to scour the net for possibly old and incorrect purge procedures.. which lead to the shambles a few few weeks ago.
Fingers burnt i'm now a little hesitant, my apologises.

[dimesio]

You don't uninstall apps from winecfg, and the apps you've installed won't be listed on the Applications tab in winecfg unless you add them. It doesn't sound to me like anything is wrong.

If you want to get rid of everything in the wineprefix, just delete the whole wineprefix. If you want to uninstall individual apps, run wine uninstaller. If it's a 64 bit app, run wine64 uninstaller.

[vector]

thanks

If it's a 64 bit app, run wine64 uninstaller.

ahh thankyou... tried this, it threw up an add remove window, photobooks was listed, I selected and hit remove,
CLI threw up a few errors and the application did not remove itself. On second attempt, even tho I selected photobooks, and remove. It started notepad removal. weird
I dug around under .wine and found /program files (x86) /photobooks and it had an uninstall.exe. I executed this and now the shortcuts etc have been removed