Help! I have wine deleted but it (including installed contents) still shows in the application launcher

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Help! so I don’t really know much about Linux and it’s distros and all the stuff but I’m trying to learn. I am using KDE Neon. I learned that you can install Windows software on Linux using wine and I installed it using Discover and also using terminal. I then removed it from the Discover directory however it still shows in the app launcher.

Please help it will be most appreciated!

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copypasta from something i read somewhere when i was dinking around with manually installing wine (instead of using bottles).

#to remove all traces of wine...
#first uninstall any wine related packages installed using the Discover package manager
#check using the Synaptic package manager for any other wine related installs
#either uninstall them from the Synaptic or list them using
apt list --installed | sed -E 's|(.*)/.*|\1|' | grep -i wine

#and one by one remove them using
sudo apt remove wine* --purge

#then use dolphin to view your /home directory and remove these entries
rm -rf $HOME/.wine
rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*

#check the directory first, but last time ALL the icons in this folder were from wine
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/icons/hicolor*
rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/????_*.{xpm,png}
rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/*-x-wine-*.{xpm,png} }}}

#followed by
sudo apt update
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoremove

cannot vouch for any of this – use at your own risk

but i can say looking in $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine might be a first step.

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You also might simply use the menu editor to delete the Wine dir. (right-click on the Application Menu to find the tool)

When Wine installs apps and creates menu entries, it is doing so for the user, not the whole system. Uninstalling software installed using native packages does not touch anything in one’s $HOME (by design), so these menu entries are not removed. Annoying, for sure, but not difficult to deal with.

That looks OK, with running apt autoclean being completely redundant when also running apt clean. A minor quibble, really.

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