Did I break Wine?

[uncle hammy]

I am new to linux, and even newer to Wine. I installed Wine on Ubuntu 8.04 with Synaptic to try and install Kidzui for my kids, which didn't work, because Kidzui requires Flash Player 8.0 and higher. Anyways, I uninstalled KidZui, and then uninstalled Wine. However after the removals, I still had a Wine>Installed Programs>Kid Zui entry showing up in my application menu. So, I went to System>Preferences>Main Menu and deleted this entry, figuring Wine would recreate it when I reinstalled.

Now, I have reinstalled Wine, my Installed Programs entry is no longer present. I have tried going to synaptic and doing a "Mark for complete removal" with no luck, tried installing and then running "apt-get remove --purge wine", then reinstalling with no luck.

Is there anyway to get wine back to a nice clean, proper installation?

Thanks,
Scott

[vitamin]

So, I went to System>Preferences>Main Menu and deleted this entry, figuring Wine would recreate it when I reinstalled.

Now, I have reinstalled Wine, my Installed Programs entry is no longer present.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-34c8b5d ... a1aa8fea48

[uncle hammy]

That's grat, thanks so much! Now, here's where I'm at. I now have an entry in Applications Wine>Programs>Kid Zui. However, Kid Zui has long beeen removed, and Wine is also removed. How can I rid myself of this lingering menu, when everything it pertains to is removed, the uninstallation procedure of Kid Zui didn't seem to get rid of it.

[vitamin]

That's grat, thanks so much! Now, here's where I'm at. I now have an entry in Applications Wine>Programs>Kid Zui. However, Kid Zui has long beeen removed, and Wine is also removed. How can I rid myself of this lingering menu, when everything it pertains to is removed, the uninstallation procedure of Kid Zui didn't seem to get rid of it.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391
Careful those commands will remove all links Wine created (so you better do that before installing anything). Or manually remove the link(s) you don't need.

[uncle hammy]

Thanks again, that's got me all set.

Do you think you have any advice to possibly getting Kidzui to work? It requires Flash Player 8.0 or higher to run. I installed the Kidzui browser, then installed Flash Player via Wine as well, however it still complains that Flash Player is requried.

I seem to recall that when I set it up in Widnows, because I use Firefox exclusively and had never used IE, I had to actually open up IE, install the Flash Player plugin, before I could get it going.

Perhaps I need to actually install a full blown version of IE, then install the flash plugin on it? I tried to install IE6, but it complained that I already had a newer version installed.