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[msastin]

Ok so I'm trying to install some games from big fish, just to see if they'll work. I download the game and when I run it it tells me:

"You don't have permission to install games from Big Fish Games on this computer. Please log in with an administrator account and try again.

How do I fix this?

[dimesio]

Ok so I'm trying to install some games from big fish, just to see if they'll work. I download the game and when I run it it tells me:

"You don't have permission to install games from Big Fish Games on this computer. Please log in with an administrator account and try again.

How do I fix this?

Try setting the Windows version to Win98 in winecfg.

[msastin]

Great idea, but nope, still gives me the same error message.

[austin987]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, msastin<[email protected]> wrote:

Great idea, but nope, still gives me the same error message.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755

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-Austin

[KenSharp]

All Big Fish games suffer from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755

[msastin]

Thanks guys, ok next question. Sorry, I'm new to all this. Trying to get away from windows.

How do you apply the patch that is suggested below:

------- Comment #5 From Kai Blin 2008-11-30 17:06:57 -------

Created an attachment (id=17575) [details]
Workaround as suggested by Lei

This one allows the installer to start, as Lei said. Posting here for your
convenience.

As this is just a hack and not a full solution, I won't submit this patch to
Wine but will try to find a correct fix.

[austin987]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM, msastin<[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks guys, ok next question.  Sorry, I'm new to all this.  Trying to get away from windows.

How do you apply the patch that is suggested below:

 -------  Comment #5 From  Kai Blin   2008-11-30 17:06:57  -------

Created an attachment (id=17575) [details]
Workaround as suggested by Lei

This one allows the installer to start, as Lei said. Posting here for your
convenience.

As this is just a hack and not a full solution, I won't submit this patch to
Wine but will try to find a correct fix.

http://wiki.winehq.org/Patching

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-Austin

[msastin]

Hey austin, thanks for helping out a noob, got one more question, hopefully the last. I installed wine using the deb. I think I found the source directory at /var/lib32/wine as it's got all the .so files in it. I've put the patch into a patch.diff file and then ran the line it says and I get the following:

msastin@msastin-desktop /usr/lib32/wine $ patch -p1 < patch.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 9
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:

and now I'm stuck.

[austin987]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM, msastin<[email protected]> wrote:

Hey austin, thanks for helping out a noob, got one more question, hopefully the last.  I installed wine using the deb.  I think I found the source directory at /var/lib32/wine as it's got all the .so files in it.  I've put the patch into a patch.diff file and then ran the line it says and I get the following:

msastin@msastin-desktop /usr/lib32/wine $ patch -p1 < patch.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 9
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:

and now I'm stuck.

You'll have to compile wine from source to apply the patch. There's a
bit of instruction on the FAQ http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ.

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-Austin

[Tinyboss]

I applied this patch and recompiled Wine (25 minutes on my poor overheating 3-year-old lappy). The install process got one step further, but then died again with the same "login as administrator" message.

I was trying to install "Plants vs. Zombies" if it's relevant.