How do I remove wine and all newly added files

[urdrwho5]

Today I installed WINE because I was hoping that my Contact Manager Timer Matters 5.0 would work with it. It would not work. So I un-installed WINE. When I installed WINE it added about 450 megs of files and when I removed WINE it removed about 215 megs. That leaves a lot of files still installed.

How do I un-install all those newly installed files? I installed and un-installed through the repository.

Tried a few things I found on line --

cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/?_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/?_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}


This sudo dpkg --get-selections |grep wine
returns this
libkwineffects1abi3 install


I did

sudo apt-get clean

[claydoh]

\You can delete the whole hidden ~/.wine folder
Wine installs a LOT of 32-bit libraries, and probably not all of them are removed automatically.

You might try and see if

sudo apt-get autoremove

removes more things. These would be packages that end with :i386
(Muon's Edit >> Remove unnecessary files performs the same function.

[urdrwho5]

Yep I believe that it is those libraries that didn't go away. In a way installing those libraries and not removing them upon un-install is kind of like the windows registry. Thigns get written to the registry and don't always go away when you un-install a program.

Thanks. I'll try the auto remove.

Today I installed WINE because I was hoping that my Contact Manager Timer Matters 5.0 would work with it. It would not work. So I un-installed WINE. When I installed WINE it added about 450 megs of files and when I removed WINE it removed about 215 megs. That leaves a lot of files still installed.

How do I un-install all those newly installed files? I installed and un-installed through the repository.

Tried a few things I found on line --

cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/?_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/?_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png}


This sudo dpkg --get-selections |grep wine
returns this
libkwineffects1abi3 install


I did

sudo apt-get clean

[sithlord48]

basicly adding on what clay said above.

you can use the "purge" option with apt (apt-get) to remove any system wide configs for a packge ( sudo apt-get purge wine)
you will then need to remove any packages that are not needed because wine installed them (sudo apt-get autoremove)

the only downside to purge is that it seams to not remove any user configs so you will still neeed to remove your ~/.wine folder

[kubicle]

This sudo dpkg --get-selections |grep wine
returns this
libkwineffects1abi3 install

Just in case there is confusion, this package is not related to wine (it's the kwin effects library)

the only downside to purge is that it seams to not remove any user configs so you will still neeed to remove your ~/.wine folder

That's not really a "downside", the package management by rule doesn't touch user $HOME directories as this could cause user data loss (especially on multiuser systems where user(s) might have their own software compiled...imagine a system where a user [or users] runs have their own wine installations and a lot of stuff in their ~/.wine directory, and an admin that decides to purge the system wide wine installation.)