steam crashes (or maybe it's wine) and i can't uninstall

[xpaulinax]

OS X 10.9/Wine 1.7.16

I downloaded steam a while ago and it was working fine and then today i closed it and tried restarting, and it tries to update, but always crashes (so now its not opening at all bc of trying to update). i tried uninstalling it too, but that crashes and it gave me a crash report. What should i do?

I have the crash report but i can't include it bc its too many characters...

[olivierfrdierick]

You should post the terminal output of Wine:

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cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam
wine Steam.exe >wine.log 2>&1

(Change path and executable name to where you installed Steam).

Source: FAQ - The Official Wine Wiki

[hrik2001]

dude u need to uninstall it by downloading appcleaner. It would erase all the related files for steam like .plist files and some folders. and maybe some prefixes. then reinstall it. I hope it works perfectly

[olivierfrdierick]

appcleaner is for uninstalling Mac apps, not Windows apps installed through Wine.

The easiest way to uninstall a Windows app from Wine is to delete the Wine prefix.
Of course, if you have other Windows apps installed in that prefix ALL will be deleted.
If you want to keep the other apps, then you'll have to try to uninstall the app through wine uninstaller, or if that fails, remove the files and registry settings manually (using wine explorer.exe and wine regedit.exe respectively).