Removing all trace of wine?

anon02 · 09-24-2011, 06:51 AM

Recently I decided to install wine to check the .exes mingw32 made, yet it used up lots of disk space. I removed it, and my disk usage had not gone down. I decided to remove all trace of wine from my computer, so went to / and tried:

sudo find | grep -i wine

And saw that there were loads of them. Is there a way to put this into rm?
I tried:

sudo find | grep -i wine | rm

But it errored with:

rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.

Any ideas?

andrewthomas · 09-24-2011, 07:04 AM

4.2. How do I uninstall *all* Windows applications?
To remove all programs installed under Wine, remove the wineprefix (usually the ~/.wine directory) by carefully pasting the following commands into a terminal:

Code:

cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine

But that doesn't remove them from the system menu; to clean out the menus, carefully paste the following commands into a terminal:

Code:

rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}

4.3. How do I uninstall Wine?
If you installed Wine with your distribution's package manager, use the package manager again to uninstall Wine. (If you installed Wine from source, then use make uninstall in the source directory to remove it.)
This won't uninstall your Windows apps, though; see above for that.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-2e99...b640b2d5839586

anon02 · 09-24-2011, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

4.2. How do I uninstall *all* Windows applications?
To remove all programs installed under Wine, remove the wineprefix (usually the ~/.wine directory) by carefully pasting the following commands into a terminal:

Code:

cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine

But that doesn't remove them from the system menu; to clean out the menus, carefully paste the following commands into a terminal:

Code:

rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}

4.3. How do I uninstall Wine?
If you installed Wine with your distribution's package manager, use the package manager again to uninstall Wine. (If you installed Wine from source, then use make uninstall in the source directory to remove it.)
This won't uninstall your Windows apps, though; see above for that.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-2e99...b640b2d5839586

Yes, I did all this, but unfortunately there are still many files in random locations in /.

Thanks for the help, anyway.

andrewthomas · 09-24-2011, 07:30 AM

What does

Code:

sudo dpkg --get-selections |grep wine

return?

anon02 · 09-24-2011, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

What does

Code:

sudo dpkg --get-selections |grep wine

return?

It returns:

Code:

wine1.2						deinstall

zuzoa · 09-25-2011, 09:58 PM

Try this:

Code:

sudo updatedb
locate -i -r wine | sed ‘s/ /\\ /g’ | sudo xargs rm -Rv

anon02 · 09-26-2011, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zuzoa

Try this:

Code:

sudo updatedb
locate -i -r wine | sed ‘s/ /\\ /g’ | sudo xargs rm -Rv

I would, but I kind of gave up on it and just made a Bash script which got every location from find | grep -i wine and deleted it.