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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