wine users - Apr 2008 - Wine Re-Installation Issues: No menus or .wine being created

I recently had to remove wine after it became cluttered with software that would
not uninstall fully (no matter what I did) and series of other issues. When I
removed wine ("yum remove wine") I decided to wait for my repositories
to get the .58 update.  In the meantime I backed up what I wanted and deleted
the .wine folder and menu entries in gnome by hand.

Today I installed wine again and nothing seems to be working properly.  a new
.wine and accompanying drive_c, etc. folders are not being created. None of the
proper menu entries are showing up in the gnome menu either. Typing the
"wine" command in console reveals the rest of the package installed
fine.

How can I get wine to set up everything properly again? Did I miss something in
the removal that is causing these issues?

I'm running on Fedora 8

Unlimited wrote:
> I recently had to remove wine after it became cluttered with software that
would not uninstall fully (no matter what I did) and series of other issues.
When I removed wine ("yum remove wine") I decided to wait for my
repositories to get the .58 update.  In the meantime I backed up what I wanted
and deleted the .wine folder and menu entries in gnome by hand.
> 
> Today I installed wine again and nothing seems to be working properly.  a
new .wine and accompanying drive_c, etc. folders are not being created. None of
the proper menu entries are showing up in the gnome menu either. Typing the
"wine" command in console reveals the rest of the package installed
fine.
> 
> How can I get wine to set up everything properly again? Did I miss
something in the removal that is causing these issues?
> 
> I'm running on Fedora 8
To create ~/.wine directory run 'wineprefixcreate'.

If you don't have Wine's own menu entries, like winecfg, notepad, etc -
ask the person who made the old Wine package. Those links are not part of
vanilla Wine and all packages that come from this site don't create them. Of
course you can run those programs directly from terminal or 'run
command' menu.

On Friday April 4 2008 03:07:01 Unlimited wrote:
> How can I get wine to set up everything properly again? Did I miss
> something in the removal that is causing these issues?
>
> I'm running on Fedora 8
	Run this:

rm -rf ~/.wine

	Make sure that there wasn't any errors and ~/.wine actually was deleted
("ls
~/.wine" should output "There is no such file or directory").
Then
run:

wineprefixcreate

	After this you should be able to install and run Windows software with WINE 
as usually.

Great, seems to have worked perfectly.

Thanks.

It is very useful, and i need to study.Thank you.