[Wine] noob:Can't get IL-2/1946 to run!

[James McKenzie]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:40 AM, farna <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I didn't originally install or run WINE as root, or install the program (IL-2) as root. I only ran the patch for the program as root. Maybe the patch didn't
> take because of that?

You may have to fix permissions on your Wine 'hidden' directory.  The
Wine FAQ has instructions on how to fix this.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ is where the FAQ is located.
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> I'll try running the patch again as the normal user and see if that helps. I only ran it as root because I had to open it as root to change the
> executable bit, just ran it from there after that was changed.
FYI, you should not have needed to use root to change a file
permission if you downloaded it as a regular user.  Something else is
not right here but that is outside of the Wine projects scope.

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> If that fails I'll uninstall IL-2 then uninstall WINE and start over -- install WINE from the repository then try installing IL-2 and the patch all over again.

You do not need to uninstall Wine.  You can do the following if you
want to generate a new Wine directory/repository:

[code]
cd $HOME
rm -rf .wine
[/code]

James McKenzie

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