Me again... question about wine

[maxxym]

Well...I have 1 out of 3 problems solved so far...Two more and I will be up and running perfectly.

How do I make sure that the application is completely removed from my computer? Temp files, registry strings (if there is a such a thing in Linux, etc.) I uninstalled Wine and wanted to install it back because I had some issues with previous configuration.. but when I installed it again....all the previous settings that I had were back in there. I need to setup MS Office 2003 so I can run Outlook. I just can't stand any of the Linux email clients. I need my Outlook back.

Anyways, I used the guide that said to setup richedit dll files and all that. But when I try to install Office, it stops at "Writing registry settings" and then it doesn't finish up.

Also, per instrucitons, http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007...inux-with.html it says to rename richedit20 and richedit32 dll files. Well I don't have those...I have riched20 and riched32. I assume those are the same thing.

Then, when I try to run "wine richedit30.exe" per instructions, it doesn't work. I do not have richedit30.exe file anywhere.

Any ideas? I was thinking about just uninstalling wine completely and installing it again. I did that but it kept my changes that I did in previous install...So I guess the quesiton I have is, how do you completely remove the app?

Thanks guys!

[eriefisher]

Re: Me again... question about wine

Open Adept and find your package(wine), right click and request purge.

I find Kontact much better than Outlook.

eriefisher

[maxxym]

Re: Me again... question about wine

Thanks!

Is that the same as sudo apt-get remove wine

[eriefisher]

Re: Me again... question about wine

No. With purge you will also delete the config files.

You can apt-get --purge wine . I'm not sure of the syntax here but it's something like that.

eriefisher

[mchuskie]

Re: Me again... question about wine

Even --purge sometimes leaves some stuff behind: usually the ~/.wine directory, I find, so you might want to remove that yourself after you purge Wine (it's a hidden directory under your home directory).