[Wine] Winetricks Paradox

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> First, never run wine (or winetricks) as sudo/root.
> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014
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> Second, Office 2007 does not need any tweaks or overrides to install in recent versions of Wine.
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> Delete your ~/.wine and run the Office 2007 installer as a normal user.
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4992
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You've botched your permissions. To be safe:

$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wine*

Which will remove ~/.wine and ~/.winetrickscache

(just be sure you don't have a folder/file named ~/.wine-important-stuff-here)

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-Austin