Hello, can't find an answer to this one in the forum, except for re-installing wine. I have installed winetrick msi2, thinking it might help with an installation - it didn't - what's more, I now get "are you running in safe-mode" or anyway to that effect, and will not install. I have tried with rm -rf ~/.wine-clean; WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-clean wine setup.exe (works), but that seems a bit overboard when all I want to do is go back to the original MSI setting. Is there not a simple sh uninstall winetrick msi2, or something similar, please? Kind regards
pj wrote:> > Is there not a simple sh uninstall winetrick msi2, or something similar, please?Remove the overrides for msi and msiexec.exe in winecfg.
It would certainly be a nice addition to winetricks to have a -r flag to automate the removal of these overrides.
pj wrote:> >I have installed winetrick msi2, thinking it might help with an installation - it didn't - what's more, I now get "are you running in >safe-mode" or anyway to that effect, and will not install. > >I have tried with rm -rf ~/.wine-clean; WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-clean wine setup.exe (works), but that seems a bit overboard when all I >want to do is go back to the original MSI setting. >Actually, this is exactly how you should remove the program. Yes it is ugly, but it is 'safe' as it removes the program and all settings to add it. The 'old' method was: [code] rm -rf $HOME/.wine re-install all programs rerun winetricks [/code] This is MUCH better!> >Is there not a simple sh uninstall winetrick msi2, or something similar, please? >No, but maybe Dan or Austin can add it in the future. James McKenzie
So the answer's no. :( Well, thanks anyway - didn't mean to stir up the nest! Wine is such a good project, it would be a shame if those items which help tremendously, like winetricks, cannot be pasted in and out of the main set of programs without much bother. I write that as a comparatively novice in the Linux field who needs a little hand-holding. Wine must be the most useful add-on that there is out there. (Hope I haven't upset anyone here...) As far as I am concerned, it is not the the fact that the Linux systems are free for the most part, rather that one knows what one is using and putting one's faith in, that makes them real winners. Microsoft nor Apple let their users know what is really going on, for obvious reasonable reasons. However, personally I like to know that the calculator I am using has not been tampered with. There are enough politicians and economists in the world who would have you believe that 2+2=5, without blindly accepting the word of folk in Seattle or anywhere else... Anyway, my tuppenceworth. :D Don't mean to rant... Look forward to the improvement by Dan and/or Austin when they get the time (well done lads, whoever your are!) I am trying to install the only program which stops me changing over completely to Ubuntu (9.10 is getting better and better after a somewhat shaky start) using wine, but this dongle thing is proving a bit of a nuisance.