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farna
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 Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:59 am Post subject: Installing software from CD - permission errors |
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I'm new to Linux and Wine, experimenting with a machine before taking the full plunge.
I have Wine installed and have managed to install one game. The game that I REALLY want to install gives me a permission error. I'm not sure if the error is being generated by the software installer, Wine, or Linux. When I double click on the installerI get a pop-up window that says "You don't have permission to install games from BigFish games on this computer. Please log in with an administrator account and try again". Game is a "hidden object" game, requirements are XP/Vista, 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, DirectX 7, 167 MB HD space. I have Wine set for XP and to emulate a virtual desktop. I've tried with and without desktop emulation.
I'm running ubuntu based Mint 7 (Gloria). It has been suggested that running executables from the CD-ROM is locked out, and can't be changed. That makes no sense to me whatsoever, since all software on CD is installed from the CD drive. I tried copying the CD to a folder on the HD, but that gives the same results.
Suggestions?
Computer is an Athlon 64 1200+, 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD, Radeon 9600 256 MB video card. |
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farna
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmm.... can't edit posts. I did search the forum, didn't find anything.... |
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dimesio
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:48 am Post subject: Re: Installing software from CD - permission errors |
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| farna wrote: | I'm new to Linux and Wine, experimenting with a machine before taking the full plunge.
I have Wine installed and have managed to install one game. The game that I REALLY want to install gives me a permission error. I'm not sure if the error is being generated by the software installer, Wine, or Linux. When I double click on the installerI get a pop-up window that says "You don't have permission to install games from BigFish games on this computer. Please log in with an administrator account and try again".
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Known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755
According to the bug report, this is already fixed in git. You can either compile yourself, or wait for the next development release. |
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DaVince
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| farna wrote: | | Hmmm.... can't edit posts. I did search the forum, didn't find anything.... |
The top-most post mentions editing is disabled... |
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farna
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks! Is the mentioned patch in the bugzilla trace not available without compiling the whole mess? |
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vitamin
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| farna wrote: | | Thanks! Is the mentioned patch in the bugzilla trace not available without compiling the whole mess? |
No, as that bug showed up again with the next patch to fix another problem... |
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farna
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, thanks. So if I d/l the source and compile it though, it should work. I might find time to do that sometime in the next two weeks. |
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Art4Love
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| ..I updated my win e to 1.1.33 and I'm still getting permission errors when I try to run files from some .iso files... any suggestions? |
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vitamin
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Art4Love wrote: | | ..I updated my win e to 1.1.33 and I'm still getting permission errors when I try to run files from some .iso files... any suggestions? |
What permission errors? What exactly does it say? |
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