[Bug 42663] Wine fails to install on Ubuntu 16.10

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

--- Comment #2 from Sean Aubin <seanaubin at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Austin English from comment #1)
> (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?

That output was as a regular user, however your proposed solution worked. What
I think happened:
- Copied `.wine` during a restore from a backup after upgrading from 16.04 to
16.10.
- `wine` no longer had access to `.wine` so I got the error messages I posted
in the attachment.

Thank you for your help. I may have been able to fix this issue myself if the
error message had been more clear. Something like `wine cannot access the .wine
directory`. Should I make this a usability issue?

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