Pretty much the title says it all... I'm having a real hard time trying to uninstall a game (Gabriel Knight 3) with Uninstaller, every time I try to I'm greeted with a nice Windows dialog that reads:> The login account does not have the required privileges to remove the selected application. Please use an administrator accountHow can that be? Sure, this installation is getting long in the tooth... I do not remember since when I'm carrying this .wine directory which I have been very careful to and have upgraded from many wine releases back... Everything seems to work OK, now except for this. I'm intrigued, though I did install the application myself, but maybe a couple releases of my distribution back (in Fedora 12 maybe?), however, my Linux user and home directory have not changed, then again this is the first time I'm trying to "uninstall" something from within Wine... Which is a whole other story in itself (got hit by the Bad EXE format for the GK3.exe file bug, and I've not found a work around, and thought of reinstalling the application instead). Any hints with either or both problems would be much appreciated.>>
gmureddu wrote:> Pretty much the title says it all... I'm having a real hard time trying to uninstall a game (Gabriel Knight 3) with Uninstaller,http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391
John Drescher wrote:> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, gmureddu <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > Then delete the install folder for the application you want to remove > and use your distro's menu editor to remove the shortcuts from the > menu. > > JohnThat is exactly what I ended up doing... Still got the "Bad EXE Format for <file>.exe" which I still have to get sorted out, though I have been unable to find any references of that error either here in WineHQ or google. Maybe I'm just search impaired.
John Drescher wrote:> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, gmureddu <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > > dimesio wrote: > > > > > > > > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 > > > > > > > Maybe I did not make myself clear. I don't wan to remove my entire wine "installation", as it so happens that I have some applications that I installed a while back which required a bit of registry trickery to get working, and since removing the whole .wine directory is essentially removing the "Windows" install, that is what I do not want. > > > > > > Then delete the install folder for the application you want to remove > and use your distro's menu editor to remove the shortcuts from the > menu. > > JohnI hope you don't do that on a real computer - thats the ugliest way to "uninstall" an app.
Usurp <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:>Sent: Feb 24, 2011 7:08 AM >To: wine-users at winehq.org >Subject: [Wine] Re: Strange uninstall issue - privileges. > > >John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, gmureddu <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: >> >> > >> > dimesio wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391 >> > > >> > >> > Maybe I did not make myself clear. I don't wan to remove my entire wine "installation", as it so happens that I have >> > some applications that I installed a while back which required a bit of registry trickery to get working, and since >> > removing the whole .wine directory is essentially removing the "Windows" install, that is what I do not want. >> > >> > >> >> Then delete the install folder for the application you want to remove >> and use your distro's menu editor to remove the shortcuts from the >> menu. >> >> John > >I hope you don't do that on a real computer - thats the ugliest way to "uninstall" an app. >I've had to do this to remove a program that would not uninstall properly using the Windows Uninstaller. About 1/2 a day to clean out the Registry. James McKenzie
James McKenzie wrote:> On 2/23/11 10:41 AM, gmureddu wrote: > How about some information on your system: > > CPU Type and 'bitness' > Linux distribution and version > Wine version (wine --version in terminal.) > > James McKenzieWell I dug around a bit and in Bugzilla I found a reference for Gabriel Knight 3 specifically. So it happens that the issue is actually caused by the installer doing something to the exe file. Sha256sum on a Windows installed .exe Vs the one from the installer in wine is not the same, and from what I gather this has been the case for some time now. As for my system: CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5600+ Linux: Fedora 14 x86_64 Wine version: 1.3.12 Fedora is a bit behind the upstream release of the development packages.