Problem re-installing wine

[garyg]

Hi, I'm trying to reinstall wine after reinstalling linux from scratch but no folders are being created.

I reinstalled UbuntuStudio 23.10 from scratch (ie. complete new install not just a reinstall). I have my old home folder on a separate partition so pointed the new installation to that home once installed. Everything is ok that i've tried so far. I then removed my existing .wine folder and reinstalled wine-staging from scratch. However no .wine folder was created, nor was the expected one in /opt.

The install appeared to run ok...

gary@xxx:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-staging
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
winehq-staging
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 1,750 B of archives.
After this operation, 74.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu mantic/main amd64 winehq-staging amd64 9.5~mantic-1 [1,750 B]
Fetched 1,750 B in 1s (1,908 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package winehq-staging.
(Reading database ... 459055 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../winehq-staging_9.5~mantic-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking winehq-staging (9.5~mantic-1) ...
Setting up winehq-staging (9.5~mantic-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-3) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu5) ...

But no folders created, 'wine --version' gives a no such file error...

I guess there's som eremanat of the previous install lingering in home that's getting in the way or something...? Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

[garyg]

Kind of sorted... I reinstalled Linux again (decided to try a different configuration) and created a new Home this time, didn't link to the old one. Wine reinstalled fine, took much longer than the install I pasted above so guess something in old Home suggested it was already installed.

One point I missed was that the .wine folder isn't created till you run a windows app so that explains that bit at least.