Wine & Office 97

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 29 17:43:30 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> And How to uninstall the program that I have install with wine?
>>>
>>> wine uninstaller
>> 
>> I create every Wine app in it's own "bottle" (wineprefixcreate). 
>> Uninstall is as simple as deleting the directory it's in.
> 
> That works.  It also leads to redundancy, as for instance, many apps
> require IExplore.

Not many, ime.  These days Wine installs a gecko-engine that handles almost
all of the things that used to need IE.  It's still (I agree) redundant,
but the overhead is small enough to be worthwhile, imo (and I'm pretty anal
about reclaiming disk space!).
-- 
derek





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