Uninstall Microsoft Data Access Components installed via winetricks

jake658879 · 06-17-2009, 10:57 AM

I need to install the program BioEdit, and I believe there is a bug in MDAC2.8 and need to uninstall it and install MDAC2.5 sp3. I have tried the following commands:

Code:

rm -rf ~/.wine ~/.winetrickscache ~/winetrickscache ~/winetricks
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
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

I have even removed these directories manually. Still, I receive a FATAL ERROR when trying to install MDAC2.5 with wine saying that a version of MDAC already exists, and it tries to refer me to a non-existant microsoft documentation page.

Does anyone know how to completely remove packages installed with winetricks, and wine?

Thank you,
Jake

mostlyharmless · 06-17-2009, 02:20 PM

Looks to me like the next thing to try is a reinstall of WINE since you tried everything else.
Is this you too? http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=9599

jake658879 · 06-17-2009, 03:01 PM

Actually, that is not me :P, but I did have a look at that post already. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling wine and winetricks as well but that does not remove the directories and files they left behind, so the problem still persists. Does anyone know any other commands or scripts that I can try to execute to erase all trace of wine, winetricks, and their various directories and packages?

jake658879 · 06-17-2009, 11:51 PM

UPDATE: From what I've read, it seems that there is some type of backup cache for wine? Is there any way to remove this? Once again, does anyone know how to ultimately remove all traces of wine and winetricks, including their packages and directories?

jake658879 · 06-18-2009, 11:02 AM

UPDATE: RESOLVED: I decided to browse the .wine directory, and I came upon the file system.reg. I opened it up in a text editor, and did a find for the term MDAC. When it found matches, I just changed any number that was 2.8 or 28 to 2.5 or 25. After that I reinstalled BioEdit and it worked fine. I know this is somewhat crude, but I was fairly desperate. The reason this worked is because I had previously used winetricks to install all versions of MDAC, and not just 2.8. I just pointed wine at 2.5 instead of 2.8.

Sum1 · 06-19-2009, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by jake658879

UPDATE: RESOLVED: I decided to browse the .wine directory, and I came upon the file system.reg.

I'm late catching onto this thread.
I've had to reinstall wine a few times and erasing the user's .wine folder always helps do a complete "re-set."
Good work.

kalyankpy · 11-25-2011, 10:41 PM

Hi,

I have trying to install Bioedit on linux with the help of wine. On my 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 MDAC 2.8, 2.6 failed to install (says not compatible). However, I could install MDAC 2.7. But still Bioedit says MDAC component is missing with the following messge

$ wine setup.exe
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"INSTALLDIR"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"INSTALLDIR"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR26"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR27"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR28"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR29"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR30"
err:msi:ITERATE_CreateFolders Unable to retrieve folder L"DIR31"

Could you help me out!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jake658879

UPDATE: RESOLVED: I decided to browse the .wine directory, and I came upon the file system.reg. I opened it up in a text editor, and did a find for the term MDAC. When it found matches, I just changed any number that was 2.8 or 28 to 2.5 or 25. After that I reinstalled BioEdit and it worked fine. I know this is somewhat crude, but I was fairly desperate. The reason this worked is because I had previously used winetricks to install all versions of MDAC, and not just 2.8. I just pointed wine at 2.5 instead of 2.8.