[Wine] file operations issues?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Sun Jun 1 15:32:19 CDT 2008


vitamin wrote:
> Spad wrote:
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>> I copied the software onto the Linux partition in its whole, 
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> Don't do that install all programs on Wine.
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> Spad wrote:
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>> even ran Wine as root, but to no avail.
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> Even worse idea - now you broke what you had. Remove ~/.wine directory, verify it's removed and install your programs.
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Spad:

You will have to remove .wine either as root or using the sudo command. 

As vitamin pointed out:  Never run Wine as ROOT.

James McKenzie





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