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So I recently updated to WINE version 1.9.6 from version 1.6.2 (from software manager). The new version was not working, so I decided to uninstall it, and reinstall the old version, but the new version 1.9.6 seems to not be uninstalling. I've tried

sudo wine uninstall wine

sudo apt-get purge wine

sudo apt-get remove --purge wine

and all of these options with wine*, wine-1.9, and wine-1.9.6 as opposed to simply wine. Nevertheless, when I check the version of wine, it shows up as 1.9.6.

Reinstalling the old version from the software manager doesn't seem to help either. What else can I do to get rid of this version?

edit: which wine shows /usr/local/bin/wine

tripleG
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  • Can you include the output of which wine so we know where it's installed? – tudor -Reinstate Monica- Mar 29 '16 at 02:41
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    According to the current Ubuntu wine package here http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/amd64/wine1.6/filelist the official packages only install in /usr/bin and not /usr/local/bin Did you install this using a package from an unofficial source or by manually compiling it? – tudor -Reinstate Monica- Mar 29 '16 at 03:08
  • I had installed it by compiling the download from the wine website. I think I finally got rid of it by going into /usr/local/bin and executing sudo rm wine* – tripleG Mar 29 '16 at 03:11
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    That's one way of doing it, but it will leave behind alot of files also. If you installed it with a make install then you should also be able to uninstall it with make uninstall – tudor -Reinstate Monica- Mar 29 '16 at 03:24

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From the additional information and comments, it appears that you have installed a version of wine by downloading and running a compilation process such as:

$ make
$ make install

This makes certain assumptions, such as that the default bin directory is /usr/local/bin instead of Ubuntu's /usr/bin which means that you could have multiple installations of the same application and can create all sorts of headaches.

If you end up in this position:

The cleanest way to remove an application installed in this way is to run the application's own uninstall process, e.g.:

$ make uninstall

or (more rarely)

$ make remove

Failing that, you may have to look at the Makefile to find out where all the files are and manually rm them.

To avoid this happening again:

This is why it's recommended, even with outside applications, that you put them into a debian package, or use a tool like checkinstall.

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tudor -Reinstate Monica-
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  • https://stackoverflow.com/a/1439989 also mentions that, if all else fails, make -n install lets you see what changes make install makes. – Olathe Mar 29 '16 at 03:37