Days ago, I installed Wine 6.0.2 (to run windows software) and Winetricks ‘20210206-next’ to be able to easily use Wine.
However, I uninstalled wine recently using sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove winehq-stable . I got this command from internet.
Now when I type wine in terminal I get bash: /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory as it should be.
However, when I type apt list -a wine I get wine/focal,focal 5.0-3ubuntu1 all. Does it mean I still have Wine installed?
Also, I wanted to uninstall Winetricks. I used sudo apt-get purge winetricks then it says Package 'winetricks' is not installed, so not removed.
Please let me know how do I uninstall Winetricks. Btw when I type apt list -a winetricks I get winetricks/focal,focal 0.0+20200412-1 all. Also, I can’t see winetricks in my Ubuntu GUI package manager.
I ran apt list --installed| grep wine*, I can’t see any package named Wine or Winetricks. However, when I run winetricks or winetricks --version I can see the package is there.
Well, I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
Here is the output to dpkg -l | grep -i wine
rc wine-stable 6.0.2~focal-1 amd64 WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
rc wine-stable-amd64 6.0.2~focal-1 amd64 WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
rc wine-stable-i386:i386 6.0.2~focal-1 i386 WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs
>Solution :
apt list -a wine or apt list --all-versions wine lists all available versions of wine. I do not have wine installed, and the results of apt list -a wine in my terminal are the same as yours:
Listing... Done
wine/focal,focal 5.0-3ubuntu1 all
Run apt policy package to check if a package is installed. The results of apt policy wine confirm that the wine package is not installed:
wine:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.0-3ubuntu1
Partial results of man apt showing the results for the list option of apt:
list
list is somewhat similar to dpkg-query --list in that it can
display a list of packages satisfying certain criteria. It supports
glob(7) patterns for matching package names as well as options to
list installed (--installed), upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all
available (--all-versions) versions.
The results of apt list --installed wine or apt list -i wine don’t return any packages at all confirming that the wine package is not installed:
Listing... Done
When you run winetricks or winetricks --version you can see the package is there, because you did not install winetricks from the default Ubuntu 20.04 repositories. iinm you manually installed winetricks version 20210206-next with the following commands and did not manually remove winetricks from the /usr/local/bin directory where it is installed:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv -v winetricks /usr/local/bin
After manually removing winetricks from /usr/local/bin with cd /usr/local/bin && sudo rm winetricks run apt policy winetricks to check if it is still installed.