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Teja
Asked: 2012-02-04 02:29:44 +0800 CST

Uninstall a program installed with Wine

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I am using Ubuntu 11.10. By using wine software i installed some software like nimbuzz and ibibo messenger. Both the programs are not working and showing the bug as We're sorry, but an unknown error has caused ibibo Messenger to close.

So I wanna uninstall those.

How to uninstall those type of programs which I installed through Wine?

uninstall wine

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  1. Best Answer

    Type in a terminal or press Alt+F2 and type wine uninstaller will give you access to the built in Add/Remove tool from wine. From there you can uninstall a program you have installed in a bottle.

    To completely remove the bottle for your user (and thus remove everything from a wine bottle and start again) you can open a terminal and type rm -rf ~/.wine or as an alternative open Nautilus and in your home folder press Ctrl+H, locate the .wine folder and delete it. wine will create a new folder next time you try to use it.

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  2. Search for wine in Dash. Select Uninstall Wine software there. There you can find all the softwares and will have option to uninstall.

    A screen shot of <code>Uninstall Wine software</code> option

    If you are using Gnome Fallback just go to Applications => Wine => Uninstall Wine software

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  3. Type "unistall wine software" in your dash and open the application.

    unistall wine software

    You will see the list of applications installed, click on the one you want to unistall and click on "Remove".

    remove installed application

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  4. I have found the answer! On the Wine menu, I clicked on "Uninstall Wine Software".

    This opens an add/remove window. I just select the app and then click the "Modify/Remove" button.

    Removing a Windows program in Wine

    However, for some reasons that I can't understand, I have to do the same operation twice. After clicking OK three times, I still see the program on the list! When I select it and then click again on the "Modify/Remove" button I get this:

    enter image description here

    I click the "Yes" button and, finally, the app disappears from the list. But after that, I have to clean the shortcuts and folder manually. I wish I could find an easier and cleaner solution, but this one works fine anyway.

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