Running .exe as a normal user

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Mexonizator
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Running .exe as a normal user

Post by Mexonizator »

Hello!

I'm trying to launch an .exe installer. It fails and gives an error:
Installation has failed. Please re-run this installer as a normal user instead of "Run as Administrator".
So, how do I do that?

Ubuntu 16.04.03
Wine 3.1

Thanks!
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dimesio
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Re: Running .exe as a normal user

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You can't in the development or stable branches, because UAC is not implemented. Wine-staging did have experimental patches for it, so you could try that. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613
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Re: Running .exe as a normal user

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Thanks, that did the trick. Is there a way to combine UAC functionality and Wine 3.1?
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Re: Running .exe as a normal user

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Well, you could try to apply the patches from wine-staging on top of the git tree yourself, but you'd need to manually rebase them. Then you could compile a wine 3.1 version with UAC.
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