I broke WINE plz help.

[mrchaos101]

I changed this week to Ubuntu from winows 7.

I spent the last few days trying to get World of Warcraft to run. After tossing lots of code at this and days on the net I was able to get it to work using PlayOnLlinux and WINE.

Today...I thought I would work on getting my MS Office 2010 to install and work. I hosed every thing. Had MSXML issues and sorm rtpd4.dll file I had to down load and over wright etc.

I want to HOSE all of my WINE and all of my PlayOnLinux and start from scratch as Im getting errors now.

I have no clue how to do this....this side short of a live cd going in my DVD drive and me TRULY starting from scratch.

Please HELP!

[adragon202]

hopefully you understand that whether or not these commands will work for you depends on the flavor you're running. If you chose ubuntu then use

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sudo aptitude purge wine

to completely and entirely remove wine and all it's settings

Then you can use

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sudo apt-get install wine

To reinstall it

Hopefully you will look closer and pay more attention to what you're doing when you shove a bunch of code into places most unwholesome.

I can also not think of a reason you would need both PlayOnLinux AND wine. It should work with one or the other.

[dimesio]

I want to HOSE all of my WINE and all of my PlayOnLinux and start from scratch as Im getting errors now.

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. You'll have to ask on their forum about how to remove it.

For plain Wine, just delete ~/.wine. It's rarely necessary to reinstall Wine itself, but you would do that the same way you installed in in the first place.

To experiment with trying to get an app to work, use a separate wineprefix so you don't mess up your existing apps.

[mrchaos101]

Please give directions how to delet ~/.wine

I have tried that purge thing and when I go to Applications it is still there.

[dimesio]

Please give directions how to delet ~/.wine

I have tried that purge thing and when I go to Applications it is still there.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#uninstall_app

[mrchaos101]

To experiment with trying to get an app to work, use a separate wineprefix so you don't mess up your existing apps.

Ok can you help me learn how to make or use separate wineprefix's?

ALSO. Can I have WINE runing Warcraft on one monitor and load up another WINE session on my other monitor to run 2 games at once?[/quote]

[mrchaos101]

Ok... guess I got it uninstalled. Tried to reinstall following the directions on this web site.

Could not download all repository indexes
The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.

Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa ... ackages.gz 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[mrchaos101]

Tried to do it through the Terminal as well. Below is what I got. Im kinda thinking I should just start over....dunno.

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tim@eTIM:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
[sudo] password for tim: 
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 883E8688397576B6C509DF495A9A06AEF9CB8DB0
gpg: requesting key F9CB8DB0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key F9CB8DB0: "Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
tim@eTIM:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release.gpg                             
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg                                 
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg                      
Ign http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg                   
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg            
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release [5,165B]            
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release                                     
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                           
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US    
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release 
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release                
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release                           
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release               
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages                     
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                 
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages                 
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources            
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages         
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages   
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
  404  Not Found
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Fetched 1B in 4s (0B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
tim@eTIM:~$ 

[vitamin]

Ok can you help me learn how to make or use separate wineprefix's?

Just install your games into different prefixes like so:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-game1 wine setup_game1.exe
....
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-game2 wine setup_game2.exe

See FAQ for more info.

ALSO. Can I have WINE runing Warcraft on one monitor and load up another WINE session on my other monitor to run 2 games at once?

Only if you using virtual desktop mode for both games.

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa ... ackages.gz 404 Not Found

Nothing to do with Wine. Ask your distro forum.