On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, James Mckenzie wrote: > Alexandre Julliard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Please explain how running as root will screw their Wine directory. If >> that's really true, surely it should be fixed instead of simply throwing >> out a warning and proceeding. > > New wine installation: > > su (no dash so root's environment is not picked up) > wine notepad > install various programs and use them. > exit > > User logs in a second time after learning how to properly use Wine. > Attempt to do anything with Wine in user space. Cannot do due to permissions > problems. > > The solution: > > sudo rm -rf .wine
Wouldn't a better solution be `sudo chown -r me:me .wine` ? Steve Brown [email protected]
