[Wine] Re: installation

[Isaacee]

tony.chamberlain wrote:
> I just installed wine and am having trouble installing.  I get the message
> 
> The authority of the current user is limited.  The program will exit
> 
> further details show
> 
> Only members of the administrators group can install programs
> 
> I found something on the web page about creating a windows user with no
> password, and doing a lot of changes to /etc/sudoers adding WINDOWS_ADMIN
> and WINDOWS_USERS and several other things.  I did this and still got the
> same error.
> 
> Then I thought maybe I needed to make a new group so I did
> 
> groupadd administrators
> usermod -a -G administrators chamberl
> usermod -a -G administrators root
> 
> and logged out and back in (to get me into that group) but when I tried
> to install I still got the same error message.  There is probably something
> simple I am missing, but I can't figure it out.  Can anyone help?
> 
> This is LinuxMint.  Can't find the version but the kernel is
> 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 and wine is
> wine-1.2.2
> 
> I tried both through
> 
> wine explorer
> 
> and directly cd'ing to the directory and doing wine ./setup.exe



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