How to install a program needing a 'normal' user

[pastim]

I have wine installed (on ubuntu 17.10). I have one winodws program that refuses to be installed on XP, so I set it to be Windows 7 in winecfg. It then says it wants to be install by a normal (non-administrator) Windows user. As I understand it the normal wine user is a Windows administrator.

How can I pretend to be a 'normal' Windows user?

I am running wine as my normal ubuntu user (not sudo or root).

[dimesio]

You can't yet in the development or stable branches, but staging has patches that have worked for some apps, so try the latest staging release. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613

[pastim]

You can't yet in the development or stable branches, but staging has patches that have worked for some apps, so try the latest staging release. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613

Thanks. The staging version overcame the windows user issue. Unfortunately that just exposed another problem with installing the program (the Qobuz Desktop Player), so I gave up.

However, I then chanced upon someone who has implemented a linux version of the player (at https://github.com/nlarche/qobuz-deskto ... r/releases), so all is well!

I did have one glitch upgrading to the staging version

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dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7zGCJ5/30-libsane1_1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite shared '/lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb', which is different from other instances of package libsane1:i386

But it seems this doesn't affect anything too much (according to other sources on the web).