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:
>Sent: Dec 9, 2010 11:38 PM
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Subject: Re: Fedora 14, Wine 1.3.8, Corel WordPerfect Office 12,	now a permanent stain
>
>On 12/10/2010 05:37 AM, David Liguori wrote:
>> I hadn't tried Wine in a while so I gave this a go.  After crashing it, 
>> searching around and finding some suggestions for a better installation, 
>> I tried to uninstall WPO and begin again.  But, when I run the 
>> uninstaller, it only pretends to uninstall it--it's still there.  The 
>> windows are in a barely readable dim grey.  I re-ran the uninstallation 
>> with the WPO disk, same thing.  So I tried uninstalling Wine, first with 
>> system ->administration ->add/remove software then with yum erase wine.  
>> It's all still there, like a red wine stain.  Anyone have similar woes 
>> and find a work-around?
>
>Hi,
>
>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

James McKenzie