On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Carlos Tiba <[email protected]> wrote: > It displays the message: > > " You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please > rerun as a user. > Aborting. " > > However it is not possible to install anything on Ubuntu Linux if > you-re not root.
You'll be asked for the password after compiling wine. > The command: > $ sudo ./wineinstall > > does not run after passwd enter because of the message above. > > How is it possible? You could use a premade package, or just run ./configure && make && sudo make install. In any case, these sort of questions belong on the forum, not wine-devel. Cheers, Austin
