Uninstalling Wine

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Uninstalling Wine

Greetings.

About six months ago, I installed Wine (no, not Darwine) via either MacPorts or Fink (can't recall which). Didn't do much for me.

Now that I'm using Mike Kronenberg's Darwine builds (a simple drag-and-drop install), I may need to get rid of that old version of Wine, as it appears to be interfering with a couple of my installers for a couple of Windows applications -- or at least, that's what one of the guys on the Wine App DB is telling me.

The question: How do I go about doing that through the terminal?

If possible, be specific enough so that even I, a kinda/sorta terminal virgin can do it! :o)

Thanks ....

--gdw

15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 13, 2008 8:50 AM

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BDAqua

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Aug 13, 2008 3:21 PM in response to Glen Warner

Hi Glen, don't know where all it stores files, but perhaps getting Appdelete, then installing it again & let appdelete take care of it would be faster... not sure. 🙂

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Glen Warner Author

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Aug 16, 2008 11:29 AM in response to BDAqua

Hello.

Thanks for the suggestion ... but who's to say that installing a new version of Wine won't install stuff in different places than the old version? :o)

--gdw

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Glen Warner Author

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Aug 16, 2008 11:38 AM in response to Glen Warner

Greetings.

Just did some messing about in the terminal. Specifically, I typed in +locate ~/.wine+, which revealed a LOT of directories, as you might guess.

Basically I went through my Users directory and deleted anything that said "Wine," with a date of 03MAR08, which is about when I installed Wine.

I also looked around that directory for any other files with that same date, and found a bunch of them in a folder named (oddly enough) "Programs." Deleted that (after first making sure there was nothing in there that I might need), and recovered about three or four megabytes (whoo-hoo!).

Fairly sure I haven't got all of it, but one day.

--gdw

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