Apologies for what is probably a silly question ! If one installs a Windows program in Linux with Wine which requires things like Winetricks to install some Windows stuff, is the whole installation within the .Wine folder ? I assume that when installing Windows programs (Including anything else that is necessary, eg. from Winetricks) then everything is indeed within .Wine with no changes at all outside this folder unless, possibly, wineprefix is used. Am I correct ? In this case, if a copy of .Wine is made before installation of this new program, then replacing the new .Wine with the copy will remove all traces of the program from the system ? TIA
crow_se wrote:> > I assume that when installing Windows programs (Including anything else that is necessary, eg. from Winetricks) then everything is indeed within .Wine with no changes at all outside this folder unless, possibly, wineprefix is used. Am I correct ? > In this case, if a copy of .Wine is made before installation of this new program, then replacing the new .Wine with the copy will remove all > traces of the program from the system ?No. Menu entries and icons are stored in various subdirectories of ~/.local/share and ~/.config/menus, and have to be removed manually. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581 In addition, some apps create folders outside the wineprefix if you don't delete the link to z:, and they, too, have to be deleted. Note also that winetricks by default installs games and apps to their own wineprefixes in ~/.local/share/wineprefixes, not to ~/.wine.
Thanks for the reply. The only Windows programs I use at present I copied directly over from my XP partition into ~/home/Programs and run them by setting an icon on the panel as wine Path to home/Programs/program/exe file Any Windows program apart from these that I try installing will be purely to try it out. Since none of the Windows programs I have at present were installed under Wine then I would assume any new programs that I try could be removed by replacing .Wine with the copy and then deleting as in http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8a17a13a8a4cda9e12e24a1ad4e1b1aaf043d581 and then check and/or delete ~/.local/share/wineprefixes Is this a reasonable assumption ?