I've installed WINE on my system by compiling and installing it from source code. Now I am trying to uninstall it but it won't let me.
When I do dnf remove wine*, it just says "Nothing to do". Any suggestions on how I can remove wine completely?
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By design, package managers only manage the software which was installed with them. To remove the software which was installed with dnf instal ... you must use dns remove ....
They won't manage the software installed by hand (using make install and so on). To remove that, you need to know which files were installed when you run make install and manually remove them.
Often the building system provides a make uninstall or something like that, which will remove anything for you. But that'll help only if you kept your building directory.
I know, that's extremely cumbersome and inconvenient. That's the price you pay for installing something around the system package manager. The lesson here is: never do this, always use a package manager to install packages into production system. In particular, when you need to build something from the source, you always build a packet and then install it properly using rpm -i or dpkg -i etc, you name it; never run just make install. Yes, this is more work, but this will save you from cumbersome and error-prone cleaning guts and tails of programs that you might have installed manually.
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Make uninstall didn't remove it properly, I can still run the command wine64.supmethods– supmethods2022-07-18 06:42:51 +00:00Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 6:42
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A hint: if Makefile suports installing under a prefix (e.g.
DESTDIR=/tmp/wine-makeinstall make installinstalls everything under /tmp/wine-makeinstall instead of the system), you can try to perform this step to determine what it had installed, then compare with the files in the system. But this is error-prone, there can be collisions and so on.Nikita Kipriyanov– Nikita Kipriyanov2022-07-18 06:52:31 +00:00Commented Jul 18, 2022 at 6:52