wine-uninstaller

wine uninstaller [--list]wine uninstaller [--silent] --remove keywine uninstaller --help

wine uninstaller is Wine's equivalent of the Windows "Add/Remove Programs" (appwiz.cpl) applet. With no options it opens that GUI so you can pick a program and uninstall it. From the command line, --list shows what is registered in the prefix and --remove runs the stored uninstall command.Entries are read from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER under Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. On a 64-bit prefix the 32-bit (WOW64) uninstall key is included as well. Keys marked SystemComponent=1 are skipped. If the current process is 32-bit on a 64-bit prefix, the tool restarts itself as 64-bit uninstaller.exe so both views of the registry are visible.The tool operates on the prefix named by WINEPREFIX (default ~/.wine). It removes a single Windows application from that prefix; it does not uninstall Wine itself and does not delete the prefix directory.

--list

Print every registered application as key|||display name, one per line, then exit. The key is the subkey under Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall (often a GUID in braces).

Run that application's uninstall command. For Windows Installer products the command is msiexec /x plus the product code; otherwise it is the UninstallString from the registry.

Force English messages and print them on the console instead of a message box. Useful when scripting --remove.

Print usage and exit.

Not every application registers a working UninstallString; some leave menu entries or files behind. If the uninstall process fails, the GUI may offer to delete the registry key anyway, which hides the program from the list without removing its files. --remove matches the registry key, not the display name from --list. Wiping a prefix (rm -rf ~/.wine) is the reliable way to remove every installed Windows app at once.

Wine's uninstaller was started by Andreas Mohr in 2000 and extended through the mid-2000s into both a control-panel applet and a --list / --remove CLI, so prefixes can be cleaned from scripts as well as from the desktop.

wine(1), wine-reg(1), wineboot(1), winetricks(1)

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