completely remove wine

Question

I tried to remove wine from the terminal using :

apt-get remove wine

but wine still exists. How can I remove it completely?

harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo get-apt purge Q4Wine
[sudo] password for harsh: 
sudo: get-apt: command not found
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo get-apt purge wine
sudo: get-apt: command not found
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm wine
rm: cannot remove ‘wine’: No such file or directory
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm q4wine
rm: cannot remove ‘q4wine’: No such file or directory
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm winetricks
rm: cannot remove ‘winetricks’: No such file or directory

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 01 '15 at 16:47

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You used get-apt instead of apt-get.

rm is for removing files, not packages.

edited Dec 01 '15 at 16:47

A.B.

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answered Dec 01 '15 at 16:46

bmclain

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 16:45

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The command is:

sudo apt-get purge wine

You had written get-apt by mistake, as highlighted by the error code.

answered Dec 01 '15 at 16:45

Arronical

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 01 '15 at 23:19

4

The Command to remove wine package is:

sudo apt-get remove --purge wine

But the ~./wine directory is still kept, and it contains all your installed wine applications and settings. Remove this folder and all its contents with this command:

rm -rf ~/.wine

edited Dec 01 '15 at 23:19

Thomas Ward

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answered Dec 01 '15 at 23:06

Neil

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