I want to know the version of wine I have installed.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
I thought in general for uninstallation without knowing version I can use this command
sudo apt-get purge wine*
but this command made my system unstable.
So now what can I do to remove wine from my system
Just use sudo apt-get purge wine and then rm -rf ~/.wine. The second command will remove your configuration in your home directory, do not run that second command if you intend to re-install wine.
With apt-get you have 2 options to remove a package.
remove removes the package, but leaves the configuration files in place. purge removes the package + configuration files.
See the man page for details.
purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and
purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
apt-get, however, leaves user files in your home directory. Files in your home directory must be manually removed. They are "dot" or .files and thus hidden.
the rm command removes the files, the -r, flag is for recursive and -f is force (do not ask for confirmation). The -r and -f flags should be used with caution as they will delete files and directories without warning.
See the man page for details.
