wine users - Dec 2009 - Uninstalling programs - new user - can we manually remove?

Hi.
I am still fairly new to using Ubuntu and Wine. 
In the past year I have been slowly migrating over to ubuntu and installed linus
on all the computers in my home.

One of these computers I installed linux on a partition so that i could still
use windows programs to do my work with...
http://www.orbofday.com/

However, last night XP died on the one partition. Go figure. I have hated
windows for a very long time... So now I am forced to install ubuntu on the
entire drive because I am not going to buy win 7.

Wine Looks promising though. I'm optimistic that I will still be able to
make use of the win apps I like while working in a linux os.

Here's the deal I installed a windows program using wine to test it out and
it didn't work. Others have. No biggie. I tried uninstalling it, and it
won't uninstall.

I googled stuff. Someone said delete some registry stuff and it will uninstall.
It didn't.

So I tried cleaning it out manually to remove it. It didn't.

Is there another simple method to force and uninstall of a program. 


I will be reformatting anyways but it would be nice to know for next time how to
remove things well.

Thanks
Todd

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Todd <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi.
> I am still fairly new to using Ubuntu and Wine.
> In the past year I have been slowly migrating over to ubuntu and installed
linus on all the computers in my home.
>
> One of these computers I installed linux on a partition so that i could
still use windows programs to do my work with...
> http://www.orbofday.com/
>
> However, last night XP died on the one partition. Go figure. I have hated
windows for a very long time... So now I am forced to install ubuntu on the
entire drive because I am not going to buy win 7.
>
> Wine Looks promising though. I'm optimistic that I will still be able
to make use of the win apps I like while working in a linux os.
>
> Here's the deal I installed a windows program using wine to test it out
and it didn't work. Others have. No biggie. I tried uninstalling it, and it
won't uninstall.
>
> I googled stuff. Someone said delete some registry stuff and it will
uninstall. It didn't.
>
> So I tried cleaning it out manually to remove it. It didn't.
>
> Is there another simple method to force and uninstall of a program.
>
>
> I will be reformatting anyways but it would be nice to know for next time
how to remove things well.
>
Read the wine FAQ. It's probably just stuck in the gnome menu and not
really installed. Having a shortcut does not necessarily mean an
application is installed.

Also if you wanted to remove all the applications you installed in
wine a 1 line command in the terminal does this.

rm ~/.wine

This however does not remove anything from the menu. The FAQ will
instruct you how to clean the menu.

John

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391

> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391
>
Thanks for linking that.

Being I am definitely not new to linux, I feel embarrassed that I
forgot to type the -rf parameters to rm

darn multitasking..

John

Thanks so much.

Bookmarked the link.

That faq is outdated for uninstalling so I use "rm -rf $HOME/.wine
&& rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine* && rm -rf
$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine && rm -f
$HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine* && rm -f
$HOME/.local/share/icons/* && rm -rf
$HOME/.local/share/applications/*.desktop" it gets rid of what that faq
misses.