Wine for Non-Root (Jeff Vian)

Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 11:00:16 UTC 2005


2005/12/14, Rudolf Kastl <che666 at gmail.com>:
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> 2005/12/14, John Kebbel <kebbelj at scripting-solutions.com>:
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> > I moved .wine to trash as root, logged in as me, used sudo to move the
> > wine rpm from root to my directory and then changed the owner from root
> > to ome. Then I tried reinstalling wine. I got this error message:
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> > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000
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> > I cd'ed to that directory and there's no visible or invisible _db.000
> > file. Got a suggestion?
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> you need to install wine as root... but you dont need to use wine as root.
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> as user open a terminal...
> su -
> rpm -i wine-version-release.arch.rpm
> exit
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> then you can run windows apps with
> wine /path/to/windowsexefile
> just fine as plain user...
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> regards,
> Rudolf Kastl
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>
just fixed some typo(s)
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