[Wine] Question about Winetricks...

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:56 PM, r2rX <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> From what i've gathered, you can either download winetricks manually or use the version, placed in /usr/bin, that comes with WINE when installing it in Ubuntu.
>
> At the moment, i'm depending on the version that came pre-configured with WINE 1.2 rc5.
>
> A question, though.....if I run winetricks via gksu winetricks, as opposed to sh winetricks, does that make a difference on how it will save the settings on my account?
>
> Cause I can only run it as gksu....sh does not work...it says:
>
>
> Code:
> /usr/bin$ sh winetricks
> winetricks: 3824: cannot create /home/ready2rumbelx/.wine/dosdevices/c:/winetrickstmp/zenity.sh: Permission denied
> winetricks: 3824: cannot create /home/ready2rumbelx/.wine/dosdevices/c:/winetrickstmp/zenity.sh: Permission denied
> sh: Can't open /home/ready2rumbelx/.wine/dosdevices/c:/winetrickstmp/zenity.sh
>
>
>
> Is this normal? Does winetricks running as 'root' save the necessary settings applicable for Wine on my account/profile?
>

No this is not normal. Have you ever run wine as root, su, sudo. If so
you messed your virtual wine up.

John