How to uninstall a game which is not letting me uninstall it? [duplicate]

I had downloaded feist and installed it just to test the gaming capability of ubuntu, since am new to it.

Now as I can see it works perfectly fine, I am trying to uninstall it. But every time when I try to uninstall this game, I get an error message and it fails. Please help.

1 Answer

Option 1

I can't say that this applies to Wine. This is a method of removing software that applies to Windows too (except paths and registry). If the provided uninstaller doesn't work anymore, all you have to do is manually check for:

entries in Program Files folder: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/. The folder you're interested in has usually the same name as the software you installed or the name of the developing company. Delete it.
entries in Application Data folder: ~/.wine/drive_c/users/<your_name>/Application Data/. Again, look for folders matching software name or developer company and delete them. You should also check the public application data folder at: ~/.wine/drive_c/users/Public/Application Data/.
registry entries. Wine stores registry data in three files: ~/.wine/system.reg, ~/.wine/user.reg and ~/.wine/userdef.reg. Open each with a text editor and look for specific keys related to software or developer name and delete those keys.
some software places files in ~/.wine/ProgramData and/or ~/.wine/Windows. Deleting folders in these places can break your current wineprefix, so you'll end up with Option 2.