[Wine] [Fwd: Re: Deleting .wine as root]

[James McKenzie]

List:

I have no familarity with this program.  The following is from Bob.

I have also asked Bob to install this program using the installation 
media provided by the producer of this program.

Anyone else want to interceed and assist Bob with this problem?

Thank you.

James McKenzie


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Deleting .wine as root
Date: 	Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:58:35 -0400
From: 	Bob <benjie1 at cox.net>
To: 	James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
References: 
<24250650.1280437315617.JavaMail.root at elwamui-karabash.atl.sa.earthlink.net> 




     James, still reading all the emails and trying to get this 
working. Here's a terminal display which shows log.txt at the end of a 
line. How can I send this to you or display the .txt?            Bob

[benjie1 at localhost Program Files]$ ls
Common Files  Internet Explorer  log.txt
[benjie1 at localhost Program Files]$ cd Common\ Files/
[benjie1 at localhost Common Files]$ ls
[benjie1 at localhost Common Files]$ ls -al
total 8
drwxrwxr-x. 2 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 30 09:05 .
drwxrwxr-x. 4 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 31 12:48 ..
[benjie1 at localhost Common Files]$ cd ..
[benjie1 at localhost Program Files]$ ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x. 4 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 31 12:48 .
drwxrwxr-x. 5 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 30 09:04 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 2 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 30 09:05 Common Files
drwxrwxr-x. 2 benjie1 benjie1 4096 Jul 30 09:04 Internet Explorer
-rw-rw-r--. 1 benjie1 benjie1   57 Jul 31 12:48 log.txt
[benjie1 at localhost Program Files]$


On 07/29/2010 05:01 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Bob:
>
> bobje1 is a non-privileged user.  root is a privileged.
>
> You have to install the program first and then run it from where you installed it to.
>
> James McKenzie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob<benjie1 at cox.net>
>> Sent: Jul 29, 2010 2:54 PM
>> To: James Mckenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: Deleting .wine as root
>>
>>       Not sure what you meant by non-priviliged user,  but I tried again
>> to run hwsoliii.exe after removing .wine. To try and run it,  I clicked
>> the icon on the desktop, and in a terminal, as user, I cd to the
>> desktop, and then typed wine hwsoliii.exe. Both these tries gave the
>> same error message attached.
>>      Where are the user files that I should remove? All I did was remove
>> the .wine and the .exe file which I had in several places. Now it's just
>> on the desktop.   Tks. Guess this will work eventually.   :-)       Bob
>>
>> On 07/29/2010 01:31 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>>> Bob<benjie1 at cox.net>   wrote:
>>>> Sent: Jul 29, 2010 5:06 PM
>>>> To: James Mckenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: Deleting .wine as root
>>>>
>>>> On 07/28/2010 03:46 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>>>>> Bob<benjie1 at cox.net>    wrote:
>>>>>> Sent: Jul 28, 2010 4:32 PM
>>>>>> To: James Mckenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>>>>>> Subject: Deleting .wine as root
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi James. Not sure how to delete .wine as root. I have to cd to
>>>>>> /home/benjie1 and the .wine is there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I delete it using yum in fedora?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No, yum is a package manager.  You would delete the Wine program(s) using it.
>>>>>> The .wine doesn't show in the terminal with ls. I guess cause
>>>>>> it's hidden.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Correct.  All files that start with a dot (.) are systems files and are hidden in the File Finder (nautilis).
>>>>>> I can go to the desktop folder /home/benjie1 and just
>>>>>> delete it but I'm not root then, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No.  Since the file was created as root you will either have to su to root and then use the rm -rf .wine/* command while in the /home/benjie1 directory or you can use sudo rm -rf /home/benjie1/.wine while logged in as benjie1.
>>>>>
>>>>> BE VERY CAREFUL using the rm -rf command!  If you do this from / or any other directory, you can destroy your file system resulting in a full reinstallation of Fedora.
>>>>>
>>>>>> So how do I get this done?
>>>>> See the Wine FAQ for further directions at http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ
>>>>>
>>>>> James McKenzie
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>        Hi again James. Just wondering it it would help things if I
>>>> removed wine completely and started over? Would I do that as root or
>>>> user, and use the rm -rf command. Rather not do this unless it will
>>>> help. Thanks                                 Bob
>>>>
>>> Bob:
>>>
>>> It is not necessary to remove Wine, just the User files.  Wine is usually installed as root with the ability to run the executables as a non-privileged user.  Are you having problems doing this?
>>>
>>> James McKenzie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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