Fedora 14, Wine 1.3.8, Corel WordPerfect Office 12, now a permanent stain

[James Mckenzie]

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote
>>> if Corel WPO was installed by a .msi file (I don't know), then the
>>> uninstaller does not work. This is a known issue.
>>>
>>> And to your special problem: uninstalling wine does not remove the
>>> ~/.wine directory, and not the wine parts in
>>> ~/.local/share/applications! That's the red wine stain :-)
>>>
>> If you ran the uninstaller from WPO this does not work in Wine.  Use wine uninstaller to do this.  It is in the Wine FAQ at http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ
>> 
>
>Hi James,
>
>my experience: if a prog was installed by a .msi installer file,
>uninstalling the prog by the wine uninstaller did not run. Perhaps I did
>something wrong, may be, but such a prog was not uninstalled by the wine
>uninstaller.
>
True, but I'm aware that their is an uninstall parameter for msiexec as well, or am I mistaken?

If I am mistaken, a bug report needs to be filed with Wine's Bugzilla to ask that this feature be added, if such a report does not already exist.

James McKenzie