COMPLETELY REMOVE WINE (Wine + Itunes and Quicktime installation = Trouble)

billyransier · #1 1st July 2007, 07:31 AM

I'm running Fedora 7 on my computer and earlier today i decided to install wine because i saw an interesting article about installing IE6 on Linux. So i installed Wine on my computer and saw that it was a pretty cool toll and when crazy

i installed DVD Shrink, DVD Decrypter, Nero 6 and IE6 all with Wine. Then i downloaded the "Itunes+Quicktime" All in one installation and halfway through the setup the screen went black showing only my mouse, after about 5 seconds i realized that if you ran your mouse over something the screen would come back slowly but surly. well after the installation i tried running both i tunes and quicktime and the screen would turn black again. quick time would eventually come back up but not itunes it just didn't work. I wen to the wine program uninstaller and it would remove every program except itunes and quicktime. i decided that the only way to get rid of it was to uninstall it. me being new (3 day of linux in my life, literally), i did what i thought would uninstall wine. i went to the terminal and typed "yum -y remove wine" and it seemed that it worked, the menu was still under the applications tab so i restarted my computer. IT WAS STILL THERE!!!! i tunes and quicktime were gone (they didnt automatically start up) but the wine program uninstaller said they were still installed. and when you click a exe file it works which means that wine is still here!!

I guess what im trying to say, how do i Completely Remove Wine from my computer
I have already tried "yum -y remove wine" and it said it worked but i dont think it did cause wondws programs still work. i go back there and type it again and it says that there is nothing to do cause its already removed.

Any Suggestiong?!?

leigh123linux · #2 1st July 2007, 07:53 AM

try

su -
service wine stop
yum -y remove wine*
rm -rf /root/.wine
rm -rf /home/*/.wine
gdm-restart

lazlow · #3 1st July 2007, 07:55 AM

1st never use the -y option. It only leads down bad roads.

2nd Your rpm db is probably corrupted. Try:

rpm --rebuilddb

Followed by:
yum info wine

It should (in this case) list it as installed. Removing stuff can get a little tricky. Sometimes dependencies that are needed for other things get removed. That is only one reason not to use the -y option.

Try:

yum remove wine

Again and report back results.

Lazlow

Edit: Yep, I forgot to shut off wine first.

billyransier · #4 1st July 2007, 08:10 AM

Thanxs i got it

I did what leigh123@linux said and it worked. no more wine......

then i restarted my computer and the screen resolution is all screwed up now. i had it set to 1024 by **** (dont remember what it was) now that i restarted the screen resolution is set to 800X600. I cant set it back because it only has the options 800X600 and 640X480

i dont know what i did wrong

lol any suggestions about my situation?

leigh123linux · #5 1st July 2007, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazlow

1st never use the -y option. It only leads down bad roads.

2nd Your rpm db is probably corrupted. Try:

rpm --rebuilddb

Followed by:
yum info wine

It should (in this case) list it as installed. Removing stuff can get a little tricky. Sometimes dependencies that are needed for other things get removed. That is only one reason not to use the -y option.

Try:

yum remove wine

Again and report back results.

Lazlow

Edit: Yep, I forgot to shut off wine first.

I don't like the -y option either ! ( I give it for ease )

sometimes you need to also restart gdm to remove the menu entries .

leigh123linux · #6 1st July 2007, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billyransier

Thanxs i got it

I did what leigh123@linux said and it worked. no more wine......

then i restarted my computer and the screen resolution is all screwed up now. i had it set to 1024 by **** (dont remember what it was) now that i restarted the screen resolution is set to 800X600. I cant set it back because it only has the options 800X600 and 640X480

i dont know what i did wrong

lol any suggestions about my situation?

try

su -
system-config-display

and choose a monitor that matches your hardware then restartX

Ctrl + Alt + backspace

If this fails post the output of this command

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

billyransier · #7 1st July 2007, 08:13 AM

well i thought it worked but i didnt

it says when i type yum info wine :
[root@localhost Billy]# yum info wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Available Packages
Name : wine
Arch : i386
Version: 0.9.39
Release: 1.fc7
Size : 18 k
Repo : updates
Summary: A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator
Description:
While Wine is usually thought of as a Windows(TM) emulator, the Wine
developers would prefer that users thought of Wine as a Windows
compatibility layer for UNIX. This package includes a program loader,
which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64
Unixes. Wine does not require MS Windows, but it can use native system
.dll files if they are available.

In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine
to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the
wine-* sub packages.

- then i type : yum remove wine and it says :
[root@localhost Billy]# yum remove wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: wine
No Packages marked for removal

leigh123linux · #8 1st July 2007, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billyransier

well i thought it worked but i didnt

it says when i type yum info wine :
[root@localhost Billy]# yum info wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Available Packages
Name : wine
Arch : i386
Version: 0.9.39
Release: 1.fc7
Size : 18 k
Repo : updates
Summary: A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator
Description:
While Wine is usually thought of as a Windows(TM) emulator, the Wine
developers would prefer that users thought of Wine as a Windows
compatibility layer for UNIX. This package includes a program loader,
which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64
Unixes. Wine does not require MS Windows, but it can use native system
.dll files if they are available.

In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine
to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the
wine-* sub packages.

- then i type : yum remove wine and it says :
[root@localhost Billy]# yum remove wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: wine
No Packages marked for removal

I have wine installed and my output is

Quote:

[leigh@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# service wine stop
Unregistering binary handler for Windows applications[root@localhost ~]# yum info wine
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
core-32bit 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
livna-32bit 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
updates-32bit 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
Reducing Fedora Core 7 - i386 to included packages only
Finished
Reducing Livna for Fedora Core 7 - i386 - Base to included packages only
Finished
Reducing Fedora Core 7 - i386 - Updates to included packages only
Finished
Installed Packages
Name : wine
Arch : i386
Version: 0.9.39
Release: 1.fc7
Size : 0.0
Repo : installed
Summary: A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator

Description:
While Wine is usually thought of as a Windows(TM) emulator, the Wine
developers would prefer that users thought of Wine as a Windows
compatibility layer for UNIX. This package includes a program loader,
which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64
Unixes. Wine does not require MS Windows, but it can use native system
.dll files if they are available.

In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine
to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the
wine-* sub packages.

[root@localhost ~]#

rpm -q wine

billyransier · #9 1st July 2007, 08:17 AM

for the screen resolution thing i typed : system-config-display and then i went to hard ware and the right video card is already selected. i tryed crtl+alt+backspace and it didnt change anything then i restarted my whole computer and it didnt help either

billyransier · #10 1st July 2007, 08:19 AM

i type rpm -q wine and it says its not installed...

[root@localhost Billy]# rpm -q wine
package wine is not installed

billyransier · #11 1st July 2007, 08:20 AM

does this mean that its not installed after all?

billyransier · #12 1st July 2007, 08:25 AM

here is the output

[root@localhost Billy]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

leigh123linux · #13 1st July 2007, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billyransier

for the screen resolution thing i typed : system-config-display and then i went to hard ware and the right video card is already selected. i tryed crtl+alt+backspace and it didnt change anything then i restarted my whole computer and it didnt help either

Did you select a display ( monitor ) that matches you hardware ( not your video card which is clearly working and doesn't need selecting ) , as this should help the display resolutions

Quote:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "auto"
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "i810"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

leigh123linux · #14 1st July 2007, 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billyransier

does this mean that its not installed after all?

Yes ___________________________

woodgnome · #15 19th July 2008, 04:22 PM

I had similar problem and really kind person called leadgolem suggested I run this and it worked a treat:-
su
yum remove wine
exit
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -rf $HOME/.wine