completely remove wine

Question

I tried to remove wine from the terminal using :

apt-get remove wine

but wine still exists. How can I remove it completely?

harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo get-apt purge Q4Wine
[sudo] password for harsh: 
sudo: get-apt: command not found
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo get-apt purge wine
sudo: get-apt: command not found
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm wine
rm: cannot remove ‘wine’: No such file or directory
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm q4wine
rm: cannot remove ‘q4wine’: No such file or directory
harsh@harsh-BOOK:~$ sudo rm winetricks
rm: cannot remove ‘winetricks’: No such file or directory

Solution 1

You used get-apt instead of apt-get.

rm is for removing files, not packages.

Solution 2

The command is:

sudo apt-get purge wine

You had written get-apt by mistake, as highlighted by the error code.

Solution 3

The Command to remove wine package is:

sudo apt-get remove --purge wine

But the ~./wine directory is still kept, and it contains all your installed wine applications and settings. Remove this folder and all its contents with this command:

rm -rf ~/.wine

Comments

[Ravan]

Use sudo apt-get purge wine

[Admin]

You are getting errors because the command get-apt does not exist, the correct command is apt-get.

[Ravan]

+1 for mentioning about rm

[harsh]

i did it in correct way also, but still wine exist. another way to remove it entirely?

[harsh]

i used all these commands in correct way. wine still exist. when i run wine its not open but those applications install by wine are open. give me another way to remove this entirely