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Star1322

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Registered: 2020-03-31

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[SOLVED] Can't uninstall or reinstall wine

So I was installing wine and my computer randomly shut down half way through and I booted it back up the wine command was being registered into the terminal but was giving an error so I tried uninstalling it with "sudo pacman -R wine" and it said it completed the process. I tried downloading wine again with "sudo pacman -S wine" but it gives an error showing that a lot of files are still there. When I try to remove wine again it can't find wine even when I try to install it. (Can't post the exact error text since it's in turkish, I apologise.)

Last edited by Star1322 (2020-03-31 20:03:49)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't uninstall or reinstall wine

pacman -S --dbonly wine
pacman -S wine

The first command updates the pacman database so it tracks files provided by wine,  the second reinstalls wine to ensure it was not corrupted.

Last edited by loqs (2020-03-31 20:01:24)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't uninstall or reinstall wine

(Can't post the exact error text since it's in turkish, I apologise.)

Yes you can

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Star1322

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Registered: 2020-03-31

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Can't uninstall or reinstall wine

pacman -S --dbonly wine
pacman -S wine

The first command updates the pacman database so it tracks files provided by wine,  the second reinstalls wine to ensure it was not corrupted.

Tried it and seems to have fixed it. Thank you kind sir.