[Wine] a question about installation winetrics!
J4
junk4 at klunky.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 11:50:15 CDT 2010
If you are running it as root then you ought not to have a permission
denied ;)
Downloading winetricks is fine as root, but you should copy it somewhere
useful like /usr/local/bin. I would recommend running these commands as
root in a terminal:
cd /usr/local/bin
wget 'http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks'
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks
Then ensure that /usr/local/bin is in your users path and then as the
non-root user run winetricks. If you get the reply 'command not found'
when you try and run it, then run the command with the full path:
/usr/local/bin/winetricks (as your normal non-root user. If you run
it as root it will not break anything, but could be considered a
security issued by you.)
Running wine as root is ill advised, but it is your computer and you can
do whatever you like.
John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:15 PM, 51movie <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone, I have a question about installation winetricks unfixed, could anyone help me?
>> Thanks!
>> the problem is, when I install the winetricks, it can be downloaded but
>>
>> "length 147,533 (144K) [text/plain]
>> winetricks: Permission denied
>>
>> can not write to “winetricks”(Permission denied)
>> aad at aad-desktop:/$
>> "
>> Of course, I run at a root user, :(
>>
>>
>
> That is most likely your problem. Do not install winetricks as root or
> download it as root or install anything inside wine as root.
>
> John
>
>
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