[SOLVED] HOWTO remove 'wine' package that is "not installed"

SaintDanBert · 07-07-2011, 10:43 AM

When I open Applications from my top tray, I find the following:
Applications --> Wine --> Programs --> {short list}

When I use apt-get in a shell, I get:

Code:

prompt$ sudo apt-get purge wine
[sudo] password: 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package wine is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
prompt$

So part of my workstation thinks that 'wine' is around and another part thinks that it is not installed.

How do I remove whatever there is that is confusing things?

Merci d'avance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

MrCode · 07-07-2011, 11:02 AM

Have you checked to see if any Wine-related files/directories still exist in the filesystem (e.g. your ~/.wine directory)? You might try removing those manually. Also, (and I'm assuming you're on GNOME 2.x) you might try right-clicking your Applications menu and going into the menu editor to remove the Wine entry.

TobiSGD · 07-07-2011, 11:11 AM

Your menu system doesn't think that wine is installed. It thinks that still some Windows programs are installed. Have a look at ~/.local/share/applications and delete the entries corresponding to those programs and wine.

SaintDanBert · 07-07-2011, 01:00 PM

thanks to both and for their responses.

After following both suggestions, my not-installed wine went away.

Thahnk ew, thahnk ew vahree much,
~~~ 0;-Dan

PS/ That is supposed to be Elvis

TriKri · 06-28-2015, 05:18 PM

I had the same problem (I had installed and uninstalled Wine, but still had it in the menu), and this worked for me in Linud Mint 17:

Go into the mint menu -> Wine
Right-click on Notepad
Choose "Uninstall"

After that the Wine submenu disappeared.