How do you uninstall Adobe Reader and clean up WINE?

So… I installed package adobe-reader-11. This is actually Windows software that pulled in WINE to run. So I’ve accidentally installed WINE. How do I clean it up?

I can remove packages pulled in using:

$ yay -Rncs adobe-reader-11
checking dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be removed after its lib32-freetype2 dependency

Package (21)      Old Version  Net Change

cabextract        1.11-1         -0.07 MiB
lib32-acl         2.3.1-2        -0.03 MiB
lib32-dbus        1.14.10-1      -0.38 MiB
lib32-fontconfig  2:2.14.2-1     -0.34 MiB
lib32-freetype2   2.13.2-1       -0.80 MiB
lib32-gettext     0.21.1-1       -2.64 MiB
lib32-glib2       2.78.0-2       -3.95 MiB
lib32-harfbuzz    8.2.0-1        -2.20 MiB
lib32-libnl       3.7.0-1        -1.18 MiB
lib32-libpcap     1.10.4-1       -0.38 MiB
lib32-libpng      1.6.40-2       -0.30 MiB
lib32-libxcursor  1.2.1-2        -0.04 MiB
lib32-libxi       1.8.1-1        -0.08 MiB
lib32-libxrandr   1.5.3-1        -0.06 MiB
lib32-libxrender  0.9.11-1       -0.05 MiB
lib32-pcre2       10.42-1        -1.75 MiB
lib32-util-linux  2.39.2-1       -1.11 MiB
wine              8.15-1       -508.30 MiB
winetricks        20230212-1     -0.93 MiB
xorg-xmessage     1.0.6-1        -0.03 MiB
adobe-reader-11   11.0.23-2    -229.85 MiB

But I also see that there’s a lot of stuff in my home:

$ find . -type d -name '*wine*'
./.cache/wine
./.cache/winetricks
./.adobe-reader-11/drive_c/windows/system32/gecko/2.47.4/wine_gecko
./.adobe-reader-11/drive_c/users/user/AppData/Roaming/wine_gecko

$ ls .adobe-reader-11/
dosdevices  drive_c  system.reg  userdef.reg  user.reg  winetricks.log  wrapper.cfg

Seems like a folder .adobe-reader-11 contains drive_c so is it safe to assume that everything installed by wine in my home directory is in this folder and removing this should be enough?

Thanks!

Yes.

2 Likes
2 Likes

Felt obliged to make this the solution…

1 Like

This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.