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I am using fedora 27. I installed wine to emulate some Windows applications. Unfortunately, it did not work as I expected and now I want to delete all the traces of wine from Fedora. I run the basic commands as yum remove wine. But the problem is that there still a lot of wine files and directories in Fedora. After run locate wine it gave me a long list of files from various locations. I attached a print-screen with the given results. Is there a way to delete all these files excepting the manual wiping file by file?

The command locate wine is potentially dangerous if you use its output as arguments for a remove operation like with rm. The command locate lists all files having the substring "wine" in their path, which may or may not what you are actually looking for: It could remove the list of "old-wines.txt" you are keeping for your next party, but wouldn't delete "wn-config.ini" if that is part of the package you want to get rid of.

To see the list of installed files belonging to the RPM package "wine" use rpm -ql wine. The RPM subsystem distinguishes between package files and configuration, though. To list the latter, use rpm -q --configfiles. To delete both config files and package files, use the "erase" subcommand: rpm -e.

From your screenshot, a simple rm /root/.local/share/mime/packages/x-wine-extension* as root should work, but I'm assuming there are more files than shown. I would think that (with Wine installed) sudo dnf remove wine would work. Your ~/.wine folder won't be deleted, so you'll need to delete that manually.

It's not clear how many files you are looking to delete nor if they all exist in the same directory or are scattered across various paths. But I will point out that if the number of files is too large, commands like ls & rm might fail to iterate over the entire list. In this case, you can use find to build a list of the files you are interested in and then using the -exec switch it can take action on each one individually. As a safety precaution, I recommend always using find to list the files before re-running the command with the -exec switch to make sure you know which files you are about to take action on.

For example, if you are aiming to remove only the x-wine-extension-*.xml files in /root/.local/share/mime/packages ... you would use find like this to list them:

find /root/.local/share/mime/packages -name x-wine-extension-*.xml 

And then to delete them you would use this:

find /root/.local/share/mime/packages -name x-wine-extension-*.xml -exec rm ;