Saturday, September 24, 2022

Copying, moving or migrating Wine to new PC

Install fresh winehq on fresh Kubuntu. Copy following folders from backup. Do not overwrite, skip.

~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/

/home/user/.local/share/icons/

~/.wine/

Removing Wine completely from system after upgrade

sudo apt --purge remove wine wine64 libwine fonts-wine // no effect

rm -rfv $HOME/.wine // -v shows list of files and directories removed

rm -fv $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/*wine*

rm -rfv $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine

rm -fv $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/*wine*

rm -fv $HOME/.local/share/icons/*wine*


sudo apt remove winehq-devel

sudo apt remove winehq-stable

sudo apt remove winehq-staging


sudo apt remove libkwineffects14 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  aha appmenu-gtk-module-common appmenu-gtk3-module clinfo fonts-noto-unhinted ibus-data kwin-data

  libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 libcolorcorrect5 libgps30t64 libibus-1.0-5 libkf5people-data libkf5people5

  libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkfontinst5 libkfontinstui5 libksgrd9 libkwinglutils14

  libnotificationmanager1 libplasma-geolocation-interface5 libprocessui9 libqaccessibilityclient-qt5-0

  libqalculate-data libqalculate22t64 libscim8v5 libtaskmanager6 libweather-ion7 libxres1 plasma-firewall

  plasma-workspace-data qml-module-org-kde-kholidays qml-module-org-kde-pipewire qml-module-org-kde-solid

  vulkan-tools wayland-utils

Do you get blue screen with login, password and large keyboard?

Ctrl + Alt + F3, login and sudo apt reinstall plasma-desktop

Ctrl + Alt + F2 to return to KDE


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