[Wine] Re: Installing software from CD - permission errors

[dimesio]

farna wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and Wine, experimenting with a machine before taking the full plunge. 
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> I have Wine installed and have managed to install one game. The game that I REALLY want to install gives me a permission error. I'm not sure if the error is being generated by the software installer, Wine, or Linux. When I double click on the installerI get a pop-up window that says "You don't have permission to install games from BigFish games on this computer.  Please log in with an administrator account and try again".   
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Known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755

According to the bug report, this is already fixed in git. You can either compile yourself, or wait for the next development release.