wine users - Mar 2009 - Only partial installation? Context menu items missing :-(

Hi!

I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and
re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps
like Wine-Doors.

Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for Wine
is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other Application"
from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the list. The
Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall Wine
Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu item -
failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or
directory)".

Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine, right?
I don't have it :-(

Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine at
the moment.

Thanks!
Matthias.

MT Brain wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and
re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps
like Wine-Doors.
> 
> Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for
Wine is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other
Application" from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the
list. The Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall
Wine Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu
item - failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or
directory)".
> 
> Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine,
right? I don't have it :-(
> 
> Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine
at the moment.
> 
> Thanks!
> Matthias.

Wine's uninstaller doesn't work very well. You can remove things 
manually by following the directions here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391

Konqueror is a native Linux browser that comes with KDE. It has nothing to do
with Wine.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, MT Brain <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am very new to Ubuntu and thus also Wine. I installed, uninstalled and
re-installed Wine a couple times while trying out Wine and some third-party apps
like Wine-Doors.
Wine-Doors is not supported here.
> Now my trouble is... I just installed 1.1.16, but my context menu entry for
Wine is missing. Moreover, when I now select "Open with other
Application" from the context menu for a Windows app, Wine is not in the
list. The Uninstaller isn't working either: when I select "Uninstall
Wine Software", I get an error window saying "Could not launch menu
item - failed to execute child process "uninstaller" (No such file or
directory)".
Wine doesn't provide those links, Ubuntu does.
> Also, I hear there's a browser called Konqueror that comes with Wine,
right? I don't have it :-(
No...that's the browser for KDE.
> Anybody have any ideas what I'm missing? I effectively cannot use Wine
at the moment.
Try it in a terminal, e.g., 'wine notepad'. Does that work? Try
removing ~/.wine if not.

-- 
-Austin

Hi guys,

yeah, I already tried a clean uninstall removing everything wine-related
according to the instructions in the documentation, then re-installed - same
results. I just installed Irfan View 4.23 from the terminal, installer worked
fine, but then Irfan View is nowhere to be found in my applications or Wine
menu, and when I try to run it from the terminal, it doesn't work - nothing
at all happens :-(

The crazy thing is, this worked perfectly fine at some point. I just uninstalled
Wine and tried some other stuff because I couldn't get another one of my
fave Windows apps to run, and now everything is screwed up.