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

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Timeout <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> But I don't want to run it as root.
>  When running as user I get the error message.
>  Whether I use yast, yum or su and then exiting su before starting the  it's the same. And now I get told that I am running as root [Rolling Eyes]
>
>  I guess I will have to wait for Suse 11. I do not want to change settings to please a software because I can never be sure that it won't mess with the rest (do I have to change the temp's ownership every time I am using another user?).
>
>  I am running here in circles. You can lock the thread, it's not going anywhere.
>

A lot of confusion has been introduced by root vs user flamewar. To be
clear, does:

$ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.bak
$ wineprefixcreate
$ wine setup.exe
$ wine your_program.exe

Fix the problem (please try this in wine 0.9.58, unpatched, unless
there is a different/bug regression you are working around)?