[Wine] Having Wine In A Different Directory?

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47, e8hffff <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I would like to have wine's user directories in '/home/wine' but when I try to set the command ?wine WINEPREFIX=/home/wine ... it fails.  I've tried it with other variations too but to no success.  The directory is already created at '/home/wine' with root/user permissions, and I'm a member of the user group.
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> Most of the information on the internet is either old or refers to wine version 1.0  executables to set up environments, not found in latest release.
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> The aim is I want to put all of wine's user content in the base of home directory and allow all users of the group 'users' to access wine.

For wineprefix usage, see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ section 7.2
(basically WINEPREFIX is an environment variable, not an argument to
wine)
BTW never run wine as root; see FAQ for explanation