I know, what a surprise. Mint 20.3. I had it installed from software manager, never worked, uninstalled it from software manager. Thought that was the end until I tried to change version of mint and it says I have the following 3 files and to remove them winehq-bookworm.sources, winehq-focal.sources and winehq-trixie.sources. I find all 3 in the file system etc apt sources.list. Normal delete tries don't give option to delete or move to trash. I've tried a ton of CLI to delete and get "No such file or directory" or similar. I've also looked in installed packages but none are listed there. I can re-install the whole version fresh but removing these files if possible seem to be the hangup?

Why would you ever want to uninstall wine, once installed, unless in your case, it's not working? You may actually need it someday (not that I'm advocating for leaving and going entirely to windows, especially in your case), but it is a program desinged to run windows software. Unless you are setting up some specialized system, I don't know why you wouldn't want that. In it's domain, it's like the best of linux AND windows. I also advocate for using mostly linux software on linux, but aren't there a few times when you just can't? I want the world to be different, but it's not.

As far as removing them, in the straight way to solve your problem, I know it's annoying, but my best guess is if removing the OS and reinstalling will fix it, and you've tried everything else, then it might be your best bet. Or how about timeshift, before you do that? Anyway, on some fresh install, I would see if you can get wine to work. Maybe you need the 64 bit version or something for it to run, as that, in the past, was sometimes possible. I just confirmed that wine IS installed by default, pretty much. You just have it there, so maybe reinstall, don't try to install it, and try to use it, like you wanted. I bet that will work. It may break things to uninstall and reinstall it alone.

If you're not happy with any of this, consider trying upstream, downstream, or switching to another branch for distributions, but of course, only as last resort. Hopefully these give you ideas.

that is not wine, but the config of the package management system. You only need to remove those files if you wish (as root).

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Thanks for the reply's. enigma9o7 even after at least 15 different cli's that didn't work, your's did the trick, thank you.