Wine and Windows programs
john s.
john at johnsdesign.net
Sun Feb 11 19:57:14 UTC 2007
Phil Meyer wrote:
> john s. wrote:
>> My Dad wanted to see if he could install Laplink (I think it is) on
>> my laptop, via Wine. The laptop locked up, so the program wasn't able
>> to 100% install. Well, after reboot- it shows that Laplink is
>> installed, but I don't want the crap on the laptop. I'm unable to
>> uninstall from the program and uninstalling Wine and then reloading
>> doesn't solve anything. Anyways, the laptop has FC6 on it...
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>
> Ah, the memories!
>
> First of all, laplink is a poor excuse of a program that performs some
> functions poorly that have always been available in UNIX based systems.
>
> So yes we can hook two UNIX/Linux systems together with a serial
> cable, and always have been able to. What is it he wants to do? You
> might look at ckermit or minicom.
>
> As far as 'uninstalling' wine apps, they are in the home directory of
> the person who installed it.
>
> look in ~/.wine/drive_c/
>
> Removing that directory will 'purge' anything that a user was doing
> with wine.
>
> Good Luck!
>
I'm not exactly sure what the purpose was (for the installation); email
or cd's suit me just fine. Looking in the /.wine/drive c/ makes sense...
more of a doh! - feel kinda stupid for not thinking of it. Thanks...
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