yum remove wine leaves wine menu items

[sdowney717]

ok I tried wine again
yum -y install wine

but it did not work. could not run anything, configurations hang, etc...
so I
yum remove wine

but the menu items are still there

also see, remove is not removing wine.!
[root@localhost ~]# wine
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exit
[root@localhost ~]# yum remove wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: wine
No Packages marked for removal
[root@localhost ~]#


Ok, I just used package manager gui and it removed wine, so why cant yum remove it?
Why can't wine work for me in FC7?

[sdowney717]

I just now tried using package manager to install wine and it hangs

I uploaded a picture to show you, the screen window shows a wine configuration window that has grabbed part of another windows screen.

[foolish]

Report the issue with menu entries staying behind as a bug to bugzilla.redhat.com against the wine package. It is a bug as the entries in the menu won't actually work as you've removed wine.

[woodgnome]

I had the same problem and a very kind person called leadgolem gave me this to run and it worked like a dream:-
su
yum remove wine
exit
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -rf $HOME/.wine

[Techbart]

I know this problem's been solved, but thought I'd add a slightly more laymen version for noobs like me

woodgnome was totally right with his post:

I had the same problem and a very kind person called leadgolem gave me this to run and it worked like a dream:-
su
yum remove wine
exit
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -rf $HOME/.wine

However, to illustrate, this is essentially removing wine menu entries that exist inside a given user folder. This can become slightly confusing as there are also entries living in the /root directory, but don't pertain to user folders when these entries are removed. The commands I ran to remove wine entries from my user menu were as follows:

In my case, from /home/techbart I navigated to ./.config/menus/applications-merged/

From here any menu entries added by wine should be listed, and a simple "rm -rf" should remove each item from this dir. Hope this helps

[dd_wizard]

BTW, if you're runnng 64 bit Fedora, try installing wine.i686. The default install for 64 bit Fedora is 64 bit wine. The last time I checked the wine home page, 64 bit wine was still considered very experimental.

dd_wizard