Wine for Non-Root
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Dec 14 01:25:12 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 19:47 -0500, John Kebbel wrote:
> As root, I installed Macromedia Studio MX. I opened Flash and created
> an animation. Everything was fine.
>
You installed a wine application as root, it is only accessible as root.
> I tried to reopen Flash as a normal user. winfile wouldn't even let me
> see the .wine files. The command wine "pathname/to/file" gave me a could
> not find error I had this same problem with other files I had
> successfully installed. Only root could run them.
>
> Can someone point me towards a solution, some a web site or a tip that
> would let me run these files as a normal user.
>
remove the .wine tree under /root then reinstall as the regular user.
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