[Wine] how do I get it working ?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:32 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>  rob.rice wrote:
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>  > vitamin wrote:
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>  > > rob.rice wrote:
>  > > > did that and this is my out put from wine setup
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>  > > > root at darkstar:~# wine setup
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>  > > Two things.
>  > > - What Wine version? (run 'wine --version')
>  > > - Why are you running as root? You should not ever need to run as root on *NIX unless you performing system maintenance.
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>  > "why are you running as root ?"
>  > habit I test all my new software as root to make sure the problems I run in to
>  > aren't permission problems
>  > the out put for " wine version " is almost the same as " wine setup " just longer
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>  Don't use root here as you clearly broke your configuration for Wine. Remove ~/.wine directory for BOTH user and root. Then try again.
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>  And I'm asking again, what is the Wine version are you using??? Post complete output of running 'wine --version'.
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After
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ wine --version
wine-0.9.58

Does:
$ wine setup.exe
Work?