wine users - Jun 2009 - Update wine?

It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in
order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph).  When
uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and associated
programs) remain intact?

> It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in
> order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph). 
> When uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and
> associated programs) remain intact?
Most probably, yes. The "C" drive is held in your WINEPREFIX(default
is
$HOME/.wine), and will not be deleted as with any other application out there. 
Some package managers have the ability to detect the setting files/folders in 
your home and delete them, but I don't know any package manager to do that 
without asking to.
If you always use your package manager to install wine, you'll most probably
don't need to remove the old version manually. Your package manager will do 
everything for you(true for dpkg, rpm, pacman, ...).

bg3075 wrote:
> It appears that it is recommended to uninstall previous version of Wine, in
order to update (here: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo, first paragraph).  When
uninstalling previous versions of Wine, does the virtual C drive (and associated
programs) remain intact?

It's only necessary to uninstall old versions of Wine first if you're
switching from using a binary package to building it yourself, or vice versa.

Uninstalling Wine does not affect any existing wineprefixes.