Hullow,
i'm quite new to Linux and I wanted to install Wine HQ.
Well, I downloaded an rpm-package. rpmDrake took care of it and installed it....
Turns out that there's something wrong with it, I can't configure it (winecfg), the whole thing freezes...
i wanted to know how to uninstall Wine HQ cause when I got to Emulators > Wine > Uninstaller i get this error: Uninstall registry key not available (yet) nothing to do!
I don't know if this has anything to do with the uninstallation of WineHq or that he means the uninstallation of some windows-app running through Wine HQ.

Can anybody tell me how to uninstall WINE HQ, and then post the steps to install it through a .tar.gz file... I can extract a .tar.gz but what's next....

Help!
Thanks

if u installed wine thru rpm u can uninstall it by doing
rpm -e <packagename>

if u dont know the package name do this
rpm -qa|grep -i wine

this will give u the package name.
everything should be done in the terminal

i dont know abt installation from tar.gz file. i am still waiting for help on it

Take a look at the WINE homepage and click on 'HowTo'

thanks for ur reply

./configure && make depend && make && su -c "make install"

do we need to type the exact line in command prompt or
each as an individual command.

thanks

guessme

Thanks about the rpm thing.

the ./configure &&..... i'm not sure but I think you need to run them separetly.... although those && suggest you can do it together....

Dunno about it....
I think I might install the Wine version which is on disc4 of mandrake.... it's a bit odler version but since it is bundled with it I expect it to work....

Opps, sorry missed this question.

The idea behind:

command1 && command2 &&...

is they are run if the previous command was successful, ';' (a semicolon) means run the next command irregardless of whether the previous one was successful or not.

So you can just copy and paste that line or type it literally :)

Yeah, it'll work either way.

By the way, what happened to tools/wineinstall? IMO, that was a lot easier.

I think it's still there but since the virtual drive no longer needs to be created on install it's not worth it :)

Still, if you want easy, don't compile from souce :), just grab a package for your distro - or just copy and paste the command in :D

Well I dont see how I can grab a package for slack based systems if thiers a way though that I dont have to compile (Ive been able to compile all but wine so go figure) and setup Id love to know!