Uninstalling Programs that were installed with Wine?

Richard Rahl · 08-13-2006, 01:07 PM

Hey all,

I'm wondering how you uninstall a windows program that was installed with Wine? Just delete the folder it was installed to? Is there a better way to do it?

Thanks!

macemoneta · 08-13-2006, 02:06 PM

You should have a menu item added called "Wine Software Uninstaller" - It will probably be in your Applications->System Tools menu if you are running Gnome.

David the H. · 08-13-2006, 02:10 PM

Use the command "wine uninstaller" for the gui uninstall utility. But really, just deleting the installation folder is fine for most apps. The only effect is that a few entries get left behind in the registry, which usually does no harm.

Richard Rahl · 08-13-2006, 07:56 PM

Oh okay.,, few questions tho:

1) I don't have any GUI for wine in my K Menu (using KDE not Gnome). I can only run Wine from the command line, and it runs in the Konsole only, no GUI.

2) I ran Wine Uninsaller, and the GUI did pop up, but the only program I have installed with Wine, Ares, wasn't there.

So how do I get wine to open in GUI form? and why isn't Ares there to remove?

macemoneta · 08-13-2006, 08:03 PM

You can run the wine uninstaller from the command line, with the command:

uninstaller

You can create your own launcher icon if one wasn't created for you.

If the the Windows software wasn't listed in the uninstaller, it didn't use a standard Windows installer. Look in the directory with the software for an uninstall.exe or similar application.