Continuing problems with wine

[Yuandan Zhang]

John Kebbel wrote:

>How would I completely erase wine (from /root/.wine and /kebbelj/.wine)
>and reinstall it on my Fedora 4 system. Here's the Catch-22 I've gotten
>myself into. 
>
>I figured I'd de-install wine and start over. Here's a copy and paste
>from the terminal ...
>
>   bash-3.00$ sudo rpm -e wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq.i686.rpm
>   Password:
>  
>
rpm -e wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq

>   error: package wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq.i686.rpm is not installed
>
>Well, then. If it's not installed, I should be able to reinstall it. No
>luck. I got this error message...
>
>   bash-3.00$ su
>   Password:
>   [root at localhost tars]# rpm -i wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq.i686.rpm
>        package wine-0.9.2-1fc4winehq is already installed
>
>Well, if it's installed, I figure, I should be able to run it. Here's
>what I got... 
>
>   bash-3.00$ winefile
>   wine: '/tmp/.wine-500/server-302-1b82be/socket' is not owned by you
>   bash-3.00$
>
>Well, if I can't run it because I don't own it, root should be able to
>run it. I got ...
>
>   [root at localhost tars]# sudo winefile
>   wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
>   wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.
>
>This recreated the root version I threw away yesterday.
>
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