Only partial installation? Context menu items missing :-(

MT Brain · Post by **MT Brain** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:12 pm

Hi!

I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps like Wine-Doors.

Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for Wine is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other Application" from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the list. The Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall Wine Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu item - failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or directory)".

Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine, right? I don't have it

Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine at the moment.

Thanks!
Matthias.

Post by **dimesio** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:22 pm

MT Brain wrote:Hi!

I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps like Wine-Doors.

Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for Wine is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other Application" from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the list. The Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall Wine Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu item - failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or directory)".

Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine, right? I don't have it

Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine at the moment.

Thanks!
Matthias.

Wine's uninstaller doesn't work very well. You can remove things manually by following the directions here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

Konqueror is a native Linux browser that comes with KDE. It has nothing to do with Wine.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:23 pm

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, MT Brain <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi!

I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps like Wine-Doors.

Wine-Doors is not supported here.

Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for Wine is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other Application" from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the list. The Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall Wine Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu item - failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or directory)".

Wine doesn't provide those links, Ubuntu does.

Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine, right? I don't have it

No...that's the browser for KDE.

Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine at the moment.

Try it in a terminal, e.g., 'wine notepad'. Does that work? Try
removing ~/.wine if not.

--
-Austin

MT Brain · Post by **MT Brain** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:47 pm

Hi guys,

yeah, I already tried a clean uninstall removing everything wine-related according to the instructions in the documentation, then re-installed - same results. I just installed Irfan View 4.23 from the terminal, installer worked fine, but then Irfan View is nowhere to be found in my applications or Wine menu, and when I try to run it from the terminal, it doesn't work - nothing at all happens

The crazy thing is, this worked perfectly fine at some point. I only uninstalled Wine and tried some other stuff because I couldn't get another one of my fave Windows apps to run, and now everything is screwed up.