[Bug 42663] Wine fails to install on Ubuntu 16.10

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42663

--- Comment #1 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Sean Aubin from comment #0)
> Created attachment 57610 [details]
> Error output
> 
> On a relatively clean install of Ubuntu 16.10 with Kernel 4.10, I am able to
> install wine using the recommended method of adding the staging ppa and
> installing the staging package with the recommended installs. However, when
> I try to test the installation with `wine notepad` I get the errors which
> have been added in the attachment. The errors seem to be related to a
> failure to create directories. However, running wine with `sudo` doesn't
> seem to improve the situation.

Don't run wine with sudo, see:
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Should_I_run_Wine_as_root.3F

those errors seem more about trying to run as root and not having access to a
display. If you rm -rf ~/.wine (may need sudo), and run as your regular user,
what output do you get?

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