(I'm new to Linux, so please bear with me if I am not making any sense)

So I have Puppy installed to my HDD. I would like to use Wine, so I downloaded the source (as the other packages are distro specific). When I try to run "./tools/wineinstall" (as a user), I get the following:
And then when I type "make uninstall" I get "make: No such file or directory" as a user, and when I log in as root to try that, then the error is "bash: make: command not found". And Wine won't let me use root to install at all.

Now I am assuming here that the binary it is finding is a result of a previous installation attempt... how can I find and remove this file that is causing the conflict? Or how else can I go about installing Wine?

Is there maybe an equivalent to the windows registry or something I could use to remove all instances and references to wine binaries?

If you mean the packages are distro specific for distos other than Puppy then I suggest this link which will take you to a page containing download links and install instructions for a dotpup of wine on the official Puppy Linux forum
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/vie...p+wine&t=11458
You could try deleting any file named wine* in /usr/bin/ (if any exist) and then running your install. I suggest you make a back-up copy of the files first. That way you can replace them if needed.
Good luck
Bill