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Wine not removed after running apt-get purge

rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 481 / 2 Years ago, thu, november 3, 2022, 8:19:08

I upgraded to Jammy Jellyfish recently and it broke a number of applications and adjustments. I am working on removing/reinstalling them, but Wine is proving difficult.

I ran sudo apt-get purge wine and got the following:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Package 'wine' is not installed, so not removed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

which wine shows:

/usr/bin/wine

Is there another removal method I can try?

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answered 2 Years ago suitman · Accepted Answer

There is no actual file named /usr/bin/wine so I think this might be a link or now, a broken link. Run the following command: file /usr/bin/wine to confirm this.

If it is an actual file (not a link) and it was installed through a ppa, there are a few ways to find the offending package.

You can use the dpkg -l command to list all installed packages and you can filter the results to only include those matching "wine" like this:

dpkg -l | grep -i wine

This will return all packages that contain the letters "wine" in the name or description. If a package is listed, uninstall or purge the package.

The other way is to use apt-file to locate the package that provides the /usr/bin/wine file.

First, install apt-file using the following commands:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install apt-file

Then, update it:

sudo apt-file update

Finally, search for the offending package:

apt-file search "/usr/bin/wine"

This should return the package name followed by the path to the file contained in the package.