how to configure new wine version

[Harold Meneley]

The previous version of wine used winecfg. The one just updated 0.9.57 has no option or is it hidden?

[vitamin]

The previous version of wine used winecfg. The one just updated 0.9.57 has no option or is it hidden?

Just run "winecfg". If you do not see that in the menu - ask whomever made your packages. Vanilla Wine does NOT put any Wine's links in the menu (winecfg, notepad, regedit, etc) if that is what you talking about.

[David C Dawson]

Hi
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:25:10PM -0600, Harold Meneley wrote:

The previous version of wine used winecfg. The one just updated 0.9.57 has no option or is it hidden?

I just installed 0.9.57 and winecfg ran just fine for me.
I build from source each time.
Maybe if you installed a package there are problems with that?

--
David Dawson
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[Harold Meneley]

I tried but it errors out with this:

wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on MPU-401 UART, disabling mixer
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
/usr/bin/../lib/../bin/wineprefixcreate: line 174: 10656 Segmentation fault "${WINELOADER:-$bindir/wine}" rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 wine.inf
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/root/.wine'.
debian1:/home/harold# wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-XKlZrp/system.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-XKlZrp/userdef.reg : No such file or directory
wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-XKlZrp/user.reg : No such file or directory

[vitamin]

I tried but it errors out with this:
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...

NEVER EVER EVER RUN WINE as root!!!
Read FAQ for explanations.

[Harold Meneley]

I wasn't running as root or using root terminal. I went back to 0.9.25-2.1 It works fine. Did the same thing and the config box comes up. Could all of this be because of the latest updates?? It seems as if things changed the kernel. I am running 2.6.18-6-686 Debian.

[vitamin]

I wasn't running as root

You sure did. If you look at the log you pasted /root/ is accessible by root user only. And Wine will try to use /root/.wine only if you are running it as the root user.

[Dan Kegel]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:03 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Harold Meneley wrote:

I wasn't running as root

You sure did. If you look at the log you pasted /root/ is accessible by root user only.

If users can't even tell if they're running apps as root,
I think it's really past time for us to make wine
simply refuse to run as root (unless you give
an override option).

[vitamin]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:03 PM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

Harold Meneley wrote:

I wasn't running as root

You sure did. If you look at the log you pasted /root/ is accessible by root user only.

If users can't even tell if they're running apps as root,
I think it's really past time for us to make wine
simply refuse to run as root (unless you give
an override option).

If people jump out the open window should we build buildings without windows?

[Dan Kegel]

vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

If users can't even tell if they're running apps as root,
I think it's really past time for us to make wine
simply refuse to run as root (unless you give
an override option).

If people jump out the open window should we build buildings without windows?

Bad analogy. More accurate would be
"If people run over their children by accidentally
shifting into drive without putting their foot
on the brake, should we build in an interlock
that requires the user to put the brakes on before
getting in gear?"
And society has already answered that with "yes".
- Dan