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I installed LAN Messenger (for Windows) using wine but turns out LAN Messenger is also available for linux as well. So..

  • I uninstalled LAN Messenger from wine.
  • I also removed wine.
  • deleted the .wine directory.
  • after that sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get autoclean.
  • then I installed LAN Messenger using dpkg -i pkgname.deb and it installed successfully.

The problem is that now I get this in dash: Dash

Any Help is highly appreciated.

[NOTE] I am using ubuntu 12.10

2 Answers 2

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I fixed it:

  • open terminal and cd ~/.local/share/applications.
  • ls -a and there were few wine-*** files and a folder wine.enter image description here
  • now you can do a selective remove or; in my case; delete all those files using rm -rf wine*

Problem solved!

curtsy: https://askubuntu.com/a/71245/241969

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    You don't have to delete everything as you may lose other useful icons too. Inside ~/.local/share/applications/wine/programs there are folders regarding each one of your wine apps. Delete the unwanted ones and keep the rest.
    – John
    Oct 30, 2016 at 11:20
  • @John Thanks for pointing that out. Updated the answer.
    – SMR
    Aug 28, 2018 at 10:05
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    Awesome, if you want to remove all the icons which we have instaled using wine, this is the technique to follow...Thanks, man.
    – Arul
    Apr 11, 2020 at 0:39
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I had a bunch of old applications/games that I could not remove. In my case ~/.local/share/applications also contained folders and subfolders!

~/.local/share/applications$ tree
.
├── gog_com-Streets_of_Rage_4_1.desktop
├── mimeapps.list
├── mimeinfo.cache
├── vlc_1_5.desktop
├── vlc_2_0.desktop
├── wine
│   └── Programs
│       ├── Diablo [GOG.com]
│       │   ├── Diablo.desktop
│       │   ├── Documents
│       │   │   └── Manual.desktop
│       │   └── Uninstall Diablo.desktop
│       ├── Sacred Gold [GOG.com]
│       │   ├── Dedicated Game Server.desktop
│       │   ├── Documents
│       │   │   ├── Map.desktop
│       │   │   ├── Quickstart.desktop
│       │   │   ├── Readme.desktop
│       │   │   └── Руководство.desktop
│       │   ├── Sacred Gold.desktop
│       │   ├── Settings.desktop
│       │   └── Uninstall Sacred Gold.desktop
│       └── SADPTool
│           ├── SADPTool.desktop
│           └── Uninstall SADPTool.desktop
├── wine-extension-chm.desktop
├── wine-extension-hlp.desktop
├── wine-extension-msp.desktop
└── wine-extension-vbs.desktop

So I had to remove *.desktop files in subfolders also.

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