Installation service Error

yoman82 · Post by **yoman82** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:22 pm

I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot find a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive and error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed. This has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1. This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:42 pm

yoman82 wrote:This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command.

This is wrong. Uninstalling Wine doesn't touch it's configuration. You need to run this instead:

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rm -rf ~/.wine

Then verify directory was really removed:

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ls -la ~/.wine

If it's still there, then use sudo:

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sudo rm -rf ~/.wine

And keep in mind to NEVER EVER use sudo/su to run Wine with.

yoman82 · Post by **yoman82** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:58 pm

Thank you so much. I thought the --purge option had cleared the config files. Thanks.

IneedAname · Post by **IneedAname** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:27 am

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:22:53 -0500
"yoman82" <[email protected]> wrote:

I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot find a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive and error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed. This has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1. This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Read the Wine FAQ and delete or move your Wine prefix.