[Wine] how do I get it working ?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:27 PM, rob.rice <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>  vitamin wrote:
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>  > rob.rice wrote:
>  > > did that and this is my out put from wine setup
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>  > > root at darkstar:~# wine setup
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>  > Two things.
>  > - What Wine version? (run 'wine --version')
>  > - Why are you running as root? You should not ever need to run as root on *NIX unless you performing system maintenance.
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>  "why are you running as root ?"
>  habit I test all my new software as root to make sure the problems I run in to
>  aren't permission problems
>  the out put for " wine version " is the almost the same as " wine setup " just longer
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Log out of root.
Log in as normal user.
$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wine # in case you ran wine with sudo before

Then does either:
$ wineprefixcreate
or
$ wine --version

work?