[Wine] a question about installation winetrics!

[J4]

If you are running it as root then you ought not to have a permission
denied ;)

Downloading winetricks is fine as root, but you should copy it somewhere
useful like /usr/local/bin.  I would recommend running these commands as
root in a terminal:
  cd /usr/local/bin
  wget 'http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks'
  chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks

Then ensure that /usr/local/bin is in your users path and then as the
non-root user run winetricks. If you get the reply 'command not found'
when you try and run it, then run the command with the full path:
  /usr/local/bin/winetricks    (as your normal non-root user. If you run
it as root it will not break anything, but could be considered a
security issued by you.)

Running wine as root is ill advised, but it is your computer and you can
do whatever you like. 


John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:15 PM, 51movie <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi, everyone, I have a question about installation winetricks unfixed, could anyone help me?
>> Thanks!
>> the problem is, when I install the winetricks, it can be downloaded but
>>
>> "length  147,533 (144K) [text/plain]
>> winetricks: Permission denied
>>
>> can not write to “winetricks”(Permission denied)
>> aad at aad-desktop:/$
>> "
>> Of course, I run at a root user,   :(
>>
>>     
>
> That is most likely your problem. Do not install winetricks as root or
> download it as root or install anything inside wine as root.
>
> John
>
>