[Wine] Re: Problems running vanilla WoW

[Usurp]

Mindez wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I'm new to all things linux and wine, so forgive my noobiness.
> 
> I've installed World of Warcraft in wine by extracting the cds to the same directory and ran install.exe; that ran fine besides an error at the end saying that it couldn't add WOW to my add/remove programs.
> 
> When I try to run it however from ~/.wine/drive_c/wow/WoW.exe I get the following:
> 
> 
> Code:
> # wine WoW.exe
> 
> 
> 

This suggest you are running Wine as root user, do not do this.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014[/quote]