i want to remove wine1.7 from my Ubuntu 14.04 trusty tahr. But when i typed in sudo apt-get purge wine
it didn't worked i gives me
package not installed
so i typed sudo apt-get purge wine(tab)
and it showed the packages so i did
sudo apt-get purge wine1.7 wine1.7-amd64 wine1.7-i386 wine-gecko2.34 wine-mono4.5.4 winetricks
i uninstalled wine but told me to do
sudo apt-get autoremove
to remove the orphaned packages but when i did autoremove it broke my system.Fortunetly i had a clonezilla partition backup so i got back my OS from a week ago but it had
wine
installed so im back to where i started.So my question is how to remove wine and its dependencies without breaking my system ? and here are the packages that are orphaned according to apt but as i said when i do sudo apt-get autoremove
it breaks my system
here are the packages
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
fonts-horai-umefont gcc-4.8-base:i386 gnome-exe-thumbnailer icoutils
libasn1-8-heimdal:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
libasyncns0:i386 libavahi-client3:i386 libavahi-common-data:i386
libavahi-common3:i386 libcapi20-3 libcapi20-3:i386 libcups2:i386
libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libelf1:i386
libexif12:i386 libexpat1:i386 libffi6:i386 libflac8:i386 libfontconfig1:i386
libfreetype6:i386 libgcrypt11:i386 libgd3:i386 libgif4:i386
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
libglib2.0-0:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libgnutls26:i386 libgpg-error0:i386
libgphoto2-6:i386 libgphoto2-port10:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386
libgssapi3-heimdal:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386
libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 libhcrypto4-heimdal:i386 libheimbase1-heimdal:i386
libheimntlm0-heimdal:i386 libhx509-5-heimdal:i386 libice6:i386
libieee1284-3:i386 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 libjbig0:i386 libjpeg-turbo8:i386
libjpeg8:i386 libk5crypto3:i386 libkeyutils1:i386 libkrb5-26-heimdal:i386
libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386
libllvm3.4:i386 libltdl7:i386 libmpg123-0 libmpg123-0:i386 libodbc1
libogg0:i386 libopenal1:i386 liborc-0.4-0:i386 libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386
libp11-kit0:i386 libpcap0.8:i386 libpciaccess0:i386 libpng12-0:i386
libpulse0:i386 libroken18-heimdal:i386 libsamplerate0:i386 libsane:i386
libsasl2-2:i386 libsasl2-modules:i386 libsasl2-modules-db:i386 libsm6:i386
libsndfile1:i386 libspeexdsp1:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386
libstdc++6:i386 libtasn1-6:i386 libtiff5:i386 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386
libusb-1.0-0:i386 libv4l-0:i386 libv4lconvert0:i386 libvorbis0a:i386
libvorbisenc2:i386 libvpx1:i386 libwind0-heimdal:i386 libwrap0:i386
libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386
libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb-present0:i386 libxcb-sync1:i386
libxcb1:i386 libxcomposite1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxdamage1:i386
libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxi6:i386 libxinerama1:i386
libxml2:i386 libxpm4:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386
libxshmfence1:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxt6:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386
ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 p11-kit-modules:i386 p7zip
unixodbc wine-gecko2.34:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
apt-get install aptutude
and then dosudo aptitude remove wine*
and it should tell you the best way out to avoid breaking things. Not necessarily the answer to your question in its entirety but something that has helped me heaps in the past.wine
before. Trysudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
then check againapt-get -s autoremove
(-s
means simulate only, not real run)