wineserver: /tmp/.wine-1000 is not owned by you

[ineuw]

Installed wine 7.0 64bit in Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3 and when I try to run "winecfg", "wine winecfg", or "wine64 winecfg" I get the following error:
wineserver: /tmp/.wine-1000 is not owned by you and I found no info on the web on how to proceed.

[invisible kid]

For some reason wine is using the /tmp area for it's work folder. You can override it on the command line:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine filename.exe

but you should probably see why it's using /tmp. You can also do other things like grant that account writing permission in /tmp. Whatever you do good luck, you should be able to get it going.

[ineuw]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I never used WINEPREFIX so I tried:

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ineuw@LMC203DT:~/.wine$ WINEPREFIX=/home/ineuw/.wine wine iview459_x64_setup.exe
wineserver: /tmp/.wine-1000 is not owned by you
ineuw@LMC203DT:/media/lindata/logiciels/wine/irfanview/x64 $ sudo chmod -R +w /tmp *

Permissions on /tmp cannot be changed

[jkfloris]

After a restart, the .wine-1000 folder should be gone.
You can also delete the folder manually. Make sure no Wine processes are running.

[w-user]

This might be of help:

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Wineprefixes

Maybe "unset WINEPREFIX" is the command that fixes your problem.