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Uninstall a program installed with Wine

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?

wine uninstall

edited Feb 3 '12 at 11:12 asked Feb 3 '12 at 10:29

Bruno Pereira Teja
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5 Answers

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.

edited Dec 3 '12 at 8:47 answered Feb 3 '12 at 11:20

Bruno Pereira
47.5k 18 147 181

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

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

answered Dec 14 '13 at 8:23

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souravc
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Thanks souravc! Meanwhile I have managed to gure that out. Imagie that I was afraid that "Unistall Wine Software"
will unistall Wine itself! :-)) That is why I did not used it from the very beginning. Anyway, I did encountered several
small bugs in the process. I have shared my experience in detail in my answer and maybe you can help me into this.
Cristiana Nicolae Dec 14 '13 at 8:42

souravc, I choose your answer as being the preferred one, because you mentioned Gnome Fallback. That's right, I
don't use Unity, so your answer can be useful for users like me. Cristiana Nicolae Dec 14 '13 at 14:01

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

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

answered Dec 14 '13 at 8:22

i08in
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Thanks Jobin! It seems that you have answered while I was editing my own answer. Thank you! As you can see, I
could gure out the solution but I have also found several bizarre behaviours. I have share my experience in details
in my answer bellow. Maybe you could help me x them. Cristiana Nicolae Dec 14 '13 at 8:38

I have found the answer! On the Wine menu I clicked on "Unistall Wine Software".

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

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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 in the list! When I select it and then click
again on "Modify/Remove" button I get this:

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

answered Dec 14 '13 at 8:34

Cristiana Nicolae
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Please post this as a new question, since this is not an answer exactly. i08in Dec 14 '13 at 8:53

Ok Jobin, you are right! I'll post it! Thank you! Cristiana Nicolae Dec 14 '13 at 10:59

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