[Solved] I somehow have Wine installed

WASD · 2011-08-01 22:32:28

Solved: I did "aptitude search wine" and found out i had "wine-bin" installed. When I removed it it also removed lmms. So I guess my installation of lmms also installed wine.

I don't recall installing it and when I do 'sudo apt-get remove wine' it just says 0 files removed. How do I remove it? I know I can just delete /usr/bin/wine but at least on windows that is an incorrect way to remove software.

Last edited by WASD (2011-08-02 22:59:53)

machinebacon · 2011-08-01 23:07:42

That's the output of

apt-cache policy wine

WASD · 2011-08-02 01:00:03

Output of "apt-cache policy wine":

wine:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.1-3.1
Version table:
1.0.1-3.1 0
100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages

Output of "sudo apt-get remove wine":

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wine is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Last edited by WASD (2011-08-02 01:01:49)

punk_physicist · 2011-08-02 02:55:36

doesn't look like it's installed or your apt-cache policy would look like

Installed: 1.0.1-3.1
Candidate: 1.0.1-3.1
Version table:
*** 1.0.1-3.1 0
100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages

My guess is it got installed somehow and you used "apt-get remove" rather than "apt-get purge wine" (which also deletes configuration files/folders). If you try "apt-get purge wine", it should delete the folder automatically (though I can't remember if this works if it's already uninstalled)...

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psyco430404 · 2011-08-02 03:00:52

What i would recommend you do is reinstall the meta package and then use deb foster to purge it our completely. Ive had to do it a couple of times when i was first starting to use linux thinking that removing the meta removed the program.

WASD · 2011-08-02 15:10:53

Edit: solved, see first post

Last edited by WASD (2011-08-02 15:15:46)

punk_physicist · 2011-08-02 16:31:25

Also good practice is to run 'apt-get autoremove' after removing a package, this will remove any dependencies or recommended packages that were installed automatically with a package you installed that has since been removed...

For instance if I apt-get install wine, then APT will install 19 new packages. Now if I apt-get remove (or purge) wine only 1 package will be removed leaving 18 that I don't need... now if after removing wine I "apt-get autoremove" the other 18 packages will be removed for me (so I don't have to search and find packages... and not all of them will have wine in the name so searching will be difficult to find them all manually anyways)

chaanakya · 2011-08-02 17:45:28

Or, what you could do is use Aptitude (it's not installed by default I believe). It's much better than apt-get ;D

chaanakya · 2011-08-02 17:46:33

Could you please mark the thread as solved by editing the title of your initial post? Thanks! smile

pvsage · 2011-08-02 18:30:12

chaanakya wrote:

Or, what you could do is use Aptitude (it's not installed by default I believe). It's much better than apt-get ;D

Of course aptitude is part of a standard CrunchBang install, as it is in just about all other Debian-based distros; apt-get just seems to be the preferred front-end for apt right now. The curses interface for aptitude is kinda nice though, if butt-ugly; it's sorta like Synaptic, but in a terminal. Some prefer aptitude, some prefer apt-get; general consensus is that you should commit to one or the other, because they don't keep track installed packages exactly the same way.

Anyway, yes, it's good practice to run both `apt-get autoremove` (or `apt-get autoremove --purge` if you want to get rid of config files as well) and `apt-get clean` after removing a package using apt-get. (If you use aptitude, it automatically removes unnecessary dependencies, so it doesn't have an autoremove option.)

punk_physicist · 2011-08-02 20:21:10

pvsage wrote:

Some prefer aptitude, some prefer apt-get; general consensus is that you should commit to one or the other, because they don't keep track installed packages exactly the same way.

AFAIK this is no longer true, as it says here:

...I want to make it clear that you can use both [apt-get and aptitude] and mix them without problems. It used to be annoying when apt-get did not track which packages were automatically installed while aptitude did, but now that both packages share this list, there’s no reason to avoid switching back and forth.

In general, I've always liked (and prefer) apt-get, but this article makes a good (and unbiased) quick explanation of the relative strengths and merits of either method of package management...

WASD · 2011-08-02 22:59:43

chaanakya wrote:

Could you please mark the thread as solved by editing the title of your initial post? Thanks!

I've done that already. But I put [Solved] in the end of the title. I'll move it to the front now smile

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