[Wine] Re: Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

[MichaelMcDonnell]

Timeout wrote:
> It's not about the installation of Java. It's about the installation of Software USING Java.
> For my part, the java installation hanging is not affecting Java's running. It's a cosmetic error because when running the installation for the second time, it does go through. Last tested on 0.9.56, Java was still running.
> 
> Affected string that I remove:
> config.c
> 
> if (st.st_uid != getuid()) fatal_error( "%s is not owned by you\n", config_dir );


Timeout this is not a bug. It's because you have run wine in the past as root. This causes some of your wine configuration files to owned by root instead of the normal user. You can fix this by changing the permissions of the .wine directory and its contents. Run the following command and replace username with your user name:

$ sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.wine

Hope it helps.