cannot uninstall software

silver163 · Post by **silver163** » Sun May 31, 2009 6:03 pm

hello,

i am having issues uninstalling two software. Polar POS and Skype. I uninstalled Polar POS in Wine but the Wine folder won't go away. how can I fix this?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun May 31, 2009 6:06 pm

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:03 PM, silver163 <[email protected]> wrote:

hello,

i am having issues uninstalling two software. Polar POS and Skype. I uninstalled Polar POS in Wine but the Wine folder won't go away. how can I fix this?

$ rm -rf ~/.wine

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-Austin

silver163 · Post by **silver163** » Sun May 31, 2009 8:51 pm

i tried but it tells me "command not found"

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:03 pm

i tried but it tells me "command not found"

If rm is not found then you have a serious problem with your system.

Did you type the $? You are not supposed to.

John

Daemon · Post by **Daemon** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:08 pm

silver163 wrote:hello,

i am having issues uninstalling two software. Polar POS and Skype. I uninstalled Polar POS in Wine but the Wine folder won't go away. how can I fix this?

Do you mean the Polar POS/Skype folder is still under the Wine menu? If so just go to /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and /home/(user)/.local/share/desktop-directories and delete the pesky items.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:00 am

silver163 wrote:i am having issues uninstalling two software.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

silver163 · Post by **silver163** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:22 pm

Daemon wrote:
silver163 wrote:hello,

i am having issues uninstalling two software. Polar POS and Skype. I uninstalled Polar POS in Wine but the Wine folder won't go away. how can I fix this?
Do you mean the Polar POS/Skype folder is still under the Wine menu? If so just go to /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and /home/(user)/.local/share/desktop-directories and delete the pesky items.

i cannot find .local

are you sure that is the correct directory tree?

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:27 pm

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:22 PM, silver163<[email protected]> wrote:

Daemon wrote:
silver163 wrote:
hello,

i am having issues uninstalling two software. Polar POS and Skype. I uninstalled Polar POS in Wine but the Wine folder won't go away. how can I fix this?
Do you mean the Polar POS/Skype folder is still under the Wine menu? If so just go to /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and /home/(user)/.local/share/desktop-directories and delete the pesky items.
i cannot find .local are you sure that is the correct directory tree?

Do you mean

~/.local does not exist?

John

silver163 · Post by **silver163** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:31 pm

John Drescher wrote:On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:22 PM, silver163<[email protected]> wrote:
Daemon wrote:
silver163 wrote: Do you mean the Polar POS/Skype folder is still under the Wine menu? If so just go to /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and /home/(user)/.local/share/desktop-directories and delete the pesky items.
i cannot find .local are you sure that is the correct directory tree?

Do you mean

~/.local does not exist?

John

yup

silver163 · Post by **silver163** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:57 pm

can someone please help?

Post by **dimesio** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:24 pm

What distro?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:45 am

Are you new with Linux, maybe? I'll have to tell you that folders that start with . are hidden folders and thus do not show up in file managers or the ls command unless you tell them to show hidden folders.