Wine unable to open display.

[Duane Clark]

Rob Hughes wrote:
> 
> I tried chowning it to the user I was going to build as, but got the
> same error. It does work if I put the source in my home directory.

It is unlikely you got the permissions right doing a simple chown. That 
is why elsewhere, I recommended blowing away the entire tree and 
unpacking it again as the user, not root. I have been building Wine 
outside of my home directory for 3 years. It does work.