wine users - Oct 2010 - I broke WINE plz help.

I changed this week to Ubuntu from winows 7.

I spent the last few days trying to get World of Warcraft to run.  After tossing
lots of code at this and days on the net I was able to get it to work using
PlayOnLlinux and WINE.

Today...I thought I would work on getting my MS Office 2010 to install and work.
I hosed every thing.  Had MSXML issues and sorm rtpd4.dll file I had to down
load and over wright etc.

I want to HOSE all of my WINE and all of my PlayOnLinux and start from scratch
as Im getting errors now.

I have no clue how to do this....this side short of a live cd going in my DVD
drive and me TRULY starting from scratch.

Please HELP!

hopefully you understand that whether or not these commands will work for you
depends on the flavor you're running. If you chose ubuntu then use


Code:
sudo aptitude purge wine



to completely and entirely remove wine and all it's settings

Then you can use


Code:
sudo apt-get install wine



To reinstall it

Hopefully you will look closer and pay more attention to what you're doing
when you shove a bunch of code into places most unwholesome.

I can also not think of a reason you would need both PlayOnLinux AND wine. It
should work with one or the other.

On 10/3/10 10:27 AM, mrchaos101 wrote:
> Please give directions how to delet ~/.wine
>
> I have tried that purge thing and when I go to Applications it is still
there.
>
Open a terminal window:

Type in:

rm -rf $HOME/.wine

then type in to test if wine is working:

wine notepad


If you are re-installing a program or want to run winetricks:

{for program}

cd path-to-installer
wine installer-program-name
substitute the path-to-installer with the UNIX/Linux path to the 
installation program and installer-program-name with the name (usually 
setup.exe) of the installation program

[for winetricks]

Follow the use instructions in the Wine FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ 
item 7.5) to use winetricks.

James McKenzie

mrchaos101 wrote:
> Please give directions how to delet ~/.wine  
> 
> I have tried that purge thing and when I go to Applications it is still
there.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#uninstall_app

Tried to do it through the Terminal as well.  Below is what I got.  Im kinda
thinking I should just start over....dunno.

Code:

tim at eTIM:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
[sudo] password for tim: 
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
--secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg
--keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 883E8688397576B6C509DF495A9A06AEF9CB8DB0
gpg: requesting key F9CB8DB0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key F9CB8DB0: "Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
tim at eTIM:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release.gpg                             
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg                                 
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg                      
Ign http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2/main
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg                   
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg            
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release [5,165B]            
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main
Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release                                     
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                           
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US    
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe
Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release 
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted
Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse
Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release                
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release                           
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release               
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages                     
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/main Packages                 
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages                 
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages           
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources            
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages         
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages   
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
  404  Not Found
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Fetched 1B in 4s (0B/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
instead.
tim at eTIM:~$

On 10/3/10 2:47 PM, mrchaos101 wrote:
> Ok... guess I got it uninstalled.  Tried to reinstall following the
directions on this web site.
>
> Could not download all repository indexes
> The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because
of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be
used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection
and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.
>
> Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-win/ppa/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
404  Not Found
> Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
>
You need to contact the Ubuntu folks to get this fixed.  Nothing we can 
do for you from here.

James McKenzie