Is there a clear way/procedure on how to remove WINE completely?

[Adara_Starkiss]

I was reading the 1FPS thread yesterday night, and thought about it, and perhaps I could try it, but then I read that it requires to have Wine-Staging, so that then you can do the procedure to add dxvk to wine (that’s as far as I understood).

Anyways, decided to check which wine I had, and I don’t understand how again I was stuck with the wine3.6, as I had already imported the new key so that I could use the latests wine.

Furthermore, for some idiotic reason, I remember installing the stable wine, and following undated threads off the internet (so many things to read and none with up to date info, not even at the winehq page, I could never find there step by step instructions on how to delete the whole thing)., so… for some idiotic reason, I have wine devel 3.6… and I have no idea why.

I kept perusing and trying different options, and ended up using synaptic to uninstall everything wine… but is still there and it still even works. I didnt play last night thinking that I must have screwed the installation with all the different commands and the stupid output I still get…

Out of frustration, I was going to wipe the whole install and start over from scratch, but then, today, I remembered I had to restart my PI so I brought the launcher and the clients work.

So, I was hoping… any of you know a current and up-to-date howto (web page prefferred) so I can try one more time to destroy wine and start over? If not, then I’ll wipe the partitiion and start from scratch. But Im really confused on how I got 3.6 when I had installed the latest stable version, which is past version 4.

Any ideas?

[Ragnar_STS]

I’m guessing that, since you say you uninstalled all things wine, that you’re using the steam version that synaptic wouldn’t know anything about.

I do feel for you, as you’ve clearly spent a lot of time searching the internets for the answers. This is actually the biggest detriment to eve on linux – too much dated/incorrect/poor information.

Using terminal you could probably toss something like:
locate wine

and find unholy numbers of files; but it might give you some hints as to what is under /opt or whatever.

[Sabrina_Winslow]

If you want to completely wipe your wine environment, I would suggest deleting the entire /home/[username]/.wine directory.

As far as wine packages are concerned, this is going to be distribution-specific. In Arch Linux, it will be “sudo pacman -R wine” or “sudo pacman -R wine-staging” depending on the version you’re running. You may also need to remove any dependencies as well.

You shouldn’t have to completely format and re-install your entire OS, but that isn’t a terrible idea from time-to-time.

[Adara_Starkiss]

Well… no, I had installed regular wine, and I am sure I did install Wine Stable. I remember in 16.04.6 I had a problem once with the key, so after I had working an up to date wine, with that key problem, it swapped my wine down to 3.6, but I never noticed the change untilll a few months later. Then, I followed the winehq.org recommendation to update the key and doing the update I got it back to a more normal release 4.x.

On this 18.04 I decided to not do the steam install, nor lutris. I didnt even put the Padoka drivers, I left it as stock as possible. Thats why I was very surprised to find that I had wine Devel 3.6… as 3.6 would indicate another problem with the key, so I redid that key thing but this time it didnt update to the more recent Wine Stable.

Winehq.org doesnt mention how to switch from Stable to Staging. But I did try to do the install --recommends thing, only to get greeted with an error regarding some dependency… which then pointed to Wine Staging 4.13, which is what gave me away the version problem.

I used a command I saw about apt list, and it also showed the Wine Devel 3.6 version, which I then tried to remove, and thats when I started to get greeted with errors like I had broken packages, so I went to another webpage… that listed 6 ways (or 7) to fix that, and none fixed it…

So then I tried synaptic, found the offending ‘wines’ and uninstalled them, and then I also deleted the .wine folder completely. But, next day, decided to run the launcher and load a client… and when I saw it worked, I did a restart and after restart… I did the winecfg and I got greeted with the 3.6 version again (only on the winecfg window doesnt say its devel).

It is very confusing not having up to date info on these matters.

Anyways, I did locate wine… and it found wine on the .wine folder, obviously, but then I have zero wine references in the /opt folder, which is where wine is installed as per the winehq.org ubuntu page. I went to the OPT folder directly and I have a browser plugin only, nothing else.

Aside of the .wine, the locate wine command also mentioned things at: /usr/ (which looks references to desktop and/or icons) and /var/lib (these are the repositories…)

Theres nothing else. Yet wine3.6 works.

Thats why I feel is more apropiate to delete everything and start over. Its just a nuissance I didnt want to get into.

@Sabrina_Winslow deleting .wine doesnt delete the wine, I had read that it doenst really delete wine, just some settings, and when I run winecfg it recreates the folder (and contents). The problem is, I dont completely know which command I need to run because theres nothing up to date in terms of commands to run and what to eliminate to completely get rid of it. I tried, and its still working even though its not installled.