[Wine] confused newbie

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 12:06:09 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> austin987 wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I assume "corruption" refers to various config files.  So use a different wineprefix - just put binaries in a common place, using symlinks if this "binary path" isn't separately configurable.  (~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files -> /usr/local/share/wine/Program\ Files)  Executables aren't written to, so how would they be corrupted?
>> >
>>
>> Depends on the executable. Most programs come with other files that
>> are written to, e.g., ini files and the like.
>
> Ahhh...  And since Windows wasn't designed as a timesharing OS with concurrent users in mind, it has single ini files rather than per-user ini files.  Is that what I'm hearing?  That would make sense.

Exactly.

> But...  If I knew the deployment environment would only ever have one user at a time, would it be possible (and safe) to set up users to share a single wineprefix?  I can't help but think there's an alternative to installing the same app multiple times

You'd have to patch the source code. Search the forum, it's been
explained before several times.

-- 
-Austin



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