[Wine] How to Install WINE on Slackware 12

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Fri Mar 14 21:37:47 CDT 2008


Dan Kegel wrote:
> <jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com> wrote:
>   
>>  You are going to read this again and again but here goes.
>>
>>  NEVER RUN WINE AS ROOT.  You leave your system open to viruses (which is
>>  one reason to switch to Linux in the first place) and if something bad
>>  were to happen, your entire system may be damaged...
>>     
>
> We're saying this so many times a day ... time to automate the
> warning.  I'll send a patch.
>
>   
Clap...Clap...Clap.  and a hearty thank you.

WINE and root should NEVER mix.

James




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