I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot find a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive and error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed. This has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1. This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:22:53 -0500 "yoman82" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I know this isn't exactly a fun thing for you guys to do, but I cannot find a similar topic anywhere. Whenever I run a .exe based installer, I receive and error saying that the Windows Installation Service could not be accessed. This has been happening ever since I attempted to install Windows Installer 3.1. This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command. I'm clueless, and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. >Read the Wine FAQ and delete or move your Wine prefix.
yoman82 wrote:> This error persists after a sudo apt-get remove wine* --purge command.This is wrong. Uninstalling Wine doesn't touch it's configuration. You need to run this instead: Code: rm -rf ~/.wine Then verify directory was really removed: Code: ls -la ~/.wine If it's still there, then use sudo: Code: sudo rm -rf ~/.wine And keep in mind to NEVER EVER use sudo/su to run Wine with.
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