Installed a 30 day trial of Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I'm now trying to "properly" uninstall. I run "uninstaller" and the program shows up in the list of installed programs. In Uninstaller: click on the program description to highlight it and then clicking the Uninstall tab causes the hard drive to wobble about a bit, the program becomes un-highlighted and the uninstaller program returns to it's startup state. Any ideas on why this uninstall is not working? I know that I can simply delete the installation directory: $ /home/username/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/Adobe but I like to uninstall properly. Note: I never was able to get it to run even though it runs just fine under Windows 2KPro. System: Linux version Ubuntu Dapper 6.061 LTS / Kernel 2.6.15-27-386 GNOME version: 2.14.3 - Ubuntu (2006-07-31) GCC version: 4.0.3 - i486-linux-gnu Xorg verson: 7.0.0
glgxg <glgxg@mfire.com.invalid> wrote:> Installed a 30 day trial of Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I'm now trying to > "properly" uninstall. > > I run "uninstaller" and the program shows up in the list of installed > programs. In Uninstaller: click on the program description to highlight > it and then clicking the Uninstall tab causes the hard drive to wobble > about a bit, the program becomes un-highlighted and the uninstaller > program returns to it's startup state. > > Any ideas on why this uninstall is not working? > > I know that I can simply delete the installation directory: > $ /home/username/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/Adobe > but I like to uninstall properly.Usually the installer also creates an uninstall entry in the start menu. wine tried to emulate this start menu, if you can find the entry you might try this method. Daniel
I've had good "luck" using a Windoze program (both on XP and under Wine) called MyUninstaller v1.33 by Nir Sofer. It is able to get rid of problem installs as well as those annoying empty entries. Web Site: http://www.nirsoft.net Dave Rowell
glgxg wrote:> Installed a 30 day trial of Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and I'm now trying to > "properly" uninstall. > > I run "uninstaller" and the program shows up in the list of installed > programs. In Uninstaller: click on the program description to highlight > it and then clicking the Uninstall tab causes the hard drive to wobble > about a bit, the program becomes un-highlighted and the uninstaller > program returns to it's startup state. > > Any ideas on why this uninstall is not working? > > I know that I can simply delete the installation directory: > $ /home/username/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/Adobe > but I like to uninstall properly. > > Note: I never was able to get it to run even though it runs just fine > under Windows 2KPro. > > System: > > Linux version Ubuntu Dapper 6.061 LTS / Kernel 2.6.15-27-386 > GNOME version: 2.14.3 - Ubuntu (2006-07-31) > GCC version: 4.0.3 - i486-linux-gnu > Xorg verson: 7.0.0 >The reason this does not work under Wine is that the program uses some rather exotic features of Windows that are not in Wine. Most, and I repeat most, of the program will run if you supply the missing routines from Windows. I run only 6 and do not bother with 7 as it has an anti-use license. To remove it just delete. Under Wine you know, or should know, that there are no strange files written in /var for you to not find.