I don't think purging Wine actually helped here. The real issue is probably the linked one - Wine can take 5 minutes or so to start when the printer is unavailable due to CUPS blocking. What likely happened is the printer became available during the time you were uninstalling/reinstalling Wine.
** Bug watch added: Wine Bugzilla #10358 http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10358 ** Also affects: wine via http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10358 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- Can not launch Wine, after created a HP printer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476079 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs