Wine stop working after winetricks shell run

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Wine stop working after winetricks shell run

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Hello, what's happening?
Uhmmm, was trying my HeidiSql app to work with mssql and then wine popup appeared telling me that i need to `wget winetricks` and run some shell scripts.. (Sorry i didn't remember what was that, but it was for mssql support or something). Did those instructions - shell script got hung, was waiting about 15min, nothing happened, pressed Ctrl+C than got backgound error messages. Since then Wine forgot how to wine:
  • - Can't run wine
    - Can't run wine apps
    - Can't run wine settings
    - Can't run winetricks
    - Can't even use menu "Uninstall wine software"
Wait, need a break. Ok, now it is more funny part:
  • - Can't uninstall wine
    - sudo apt-get purge/autoremove didn't help
    - actually remove wine seems to work, but it stays in menu...
So, literally - NOTHING works.

My system is 64-bit Kubuntu 14.04, kdelibs: 4.13.3, qt version: 4.8.6, kernel version: 3.13.0-33-generic, AMD process and enough of ram.

So. If you go ahead and try to help me it would be great. Thanks.
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Re: Wine stop working after winetricks shell run

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Plain Wine does not pop up messages telling you to wget winetricks and run shell scripts, so if you got such a message, you must be using some third party version of Wine. Ask for help from in the support channel of whatever third party app you're using.
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Re: Wine stop working after winetricks shell run

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`sudo apt-get install wine`

That's how i got wine into my system.
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Re: Wine stop working after winetricks shell run

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The source of the popup message you say you saw is not Wine. The one other possibility that I can think is that the app itself could be Wine-aware, and that's where the message came from. If that's the case, contact the app vendor for support.

As for cleaning up a messed-up wineprefix, the instructions for plain Wine are here. Keep in mind that if you used a third party wrapper for Wine it may have installed your app somewhere other than the default wineprefix.
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