I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install DirectX. I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE. Is there any way to clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to reinstall all my software? Owen Stairs
Llewen wrote:> I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install > DirectX. I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE. Is there any way to > clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to > reinstall all my software? > > Owen StairsYes, all Wine files are kept in ~/.wine directory ($HOME/.wine). The only exceptions are desktop and menu entries. So to completely cleanup Wine you just need to remove the above directory with Code: rm -rf ~/.wine Wine will recreate it if it does not exists.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:40:24 -0300 Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:> I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install > DirectX. I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE. Is there any way to > clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to > reinstall all my software? > > Owen StairsYou can try to remove .wine/drive_c/windows and .wine/drive_c/program files and then run wineprefixcreate perhaps that will help -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080421/eb29fa00/attachment.pgp
Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:40:24 -0300 > Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote: > > > > I was installing a game, and I made the mistake of agreeing to install > > DirectX. I'm guessing this can screw up your WINE. Is there any way to > > clean up my WINE after doing something like that without having to > > reinstall all my software? > > > > Owen Stairs > > > > You can try to remove .wine/drive_c/windows and .wine/drive_c/program files > and then run wineprefixcreate > perhaps that will help > -- > Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net> >In case you didn't know that is what 'rm -rf ~/.wine' does, plus few more helpful things. All in one command! Removing files without cleaning registry is WRONG and will harm even windows. It for sure _WILL_ break Wine or rather programs that see stuff in registry yet can't find it on the disk.
Marcel W. Wysocki wrote:> for the registry stuff i use ccleaner (www.ccleaner.de) > its a nice tool to clean up the windows registry and even works great in wineI'd like you to show how well that "cleaner" removes Wine specific stuff? Or the invalid windows configuration? Most of such "cleaners" will corrupt registry beyond repair or won't do anything useful at all.
vitamin wrote:> > Marcel W. Wysocki wrote: > > for the registry stuff i use ccleaner (www.ccleaner.de) > > its a nice tool to clean up the windows registry and even works great in wine > > I'd like you to show how well that "cleaner" removes Wine specific stuff? Or the invalid windows configuration? > Most of such "cleaners" will corrupt registry beyond repair or won't do anything useful at all.I haven't tried it in wine yet, but I have to say that CCleaner is the only program of its sort that I trust in Windows. (You're right, most are useless or dangerous.) CCleaner shows the user a list of things it thinks should be deleted, along with the reason why it thinks they should be deleted. The user has the option to accept or reject any of the recommendations, so it should be safe for users who are paying attention to what they are doing. It's rated platinum in the AppDB.