jre 8 installation issue in wine

[sharad16j]

I am trying to install JRE-1.8 using wine. since a windows application requires jre 1.8 . but the installation gives me error .
i am using kali linux .



root@kali:~/.wine/drive_c# wine jre-8u231-windows-i586.exe /s
002c:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
002c:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
002c:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
002c:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
002c:err:msi:custom_get_thread_return Invalid Return Code 610018
002c:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"validateinstalldir" returned 1603
root@kali:~/.wine/drive_c#

can anyone help ??

[jkfloris]

Don't run wine as root!

Try to install the JRE in a clean Wineprefix as a normal user.

[DarkShadow44]

Keep in mind bug 40821.