cannot install wine

Trevorofmolino · Post by **Trevorofmolino** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:52 pm

extracted wine-0.9.60 and ran ./tools/wineinstall , it configured and compiled. then after putting in root password I getcould not find wine on your system.run wineinstall as root to install before rerunning wineinstall as a user. So I enter root and root password and then i retry ./tools/wineinstall and get
WINE Installer v0.75

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
Aborting.
wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish this or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:56 pm

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Trevorofmolino
<[email protected]> wrote:

extracted wine-0.9.60 and ran ./tools/wineinstall , it configured and compiled. then after putting in root password I getcould not find wine on your system.run wineinstall as root to install before rerunning wineinstall as a user. So I enter root and root password and then i retry ./tools/wineinstall and get
WINE Installer v0.75

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
Aborting.
wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish this or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?

$ sudo make install

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun May 18, 2008 5:11 pm

Trevorofmolino wrote:wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish this or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?

This is really bad place for Wine. Move it outside the default WINEPREFIX!

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Sun May 18, 2008 8:03 pm

On Sunday 18 May 2008 02:52:40 pm Trevorofmolino wrote:

extracted wine-0.9.60 and ran ./tools/wineinstall , it configured and
compiled. then after putting in root password I getcould not find wine on
your system.run wineinstall as root to install before rerunning wineinstall
as a user. So I enter root and root password and then i retry
./tools/wineinstall and get WINE Installer v0.75

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as
a user. Aborting.

wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish this
or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?

Try following it's advice. Why are you logged in as root? If you're logged
in as root right now, log out right now! Log in as a normal, non-root user,
then go read this.
http://www.newlinuxuser.com/explain-why ... n-as-root/

Then, try again, and when you get output from software, read it.

--
Paul Johnson
[email protected]

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Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Sun May 18, 2008 8:03 pm

On Sunday 18 May 2008 02:56:24 pm Austin English wrote:

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Trevorofmolino

<[email protected]> wrote:
extracted wine-0.9.60 and ran ./tools/wineinstall , it configured and
compiled. then after putting in root password I getcould not find wine on
your system.run wineinstall as root to install before rerunning
wineinstall as a user. So I enter root and root password and then i
retry ./tools/wineinstall and get WINE Installer v0.75

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun
as a user. Aborting.
wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish
this or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?
$ sudo make install

Fail. Read the program output quoted: Running that as root is a Bad Thing.
Don't do it.

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Paul Johnson
[email protected]

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James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:16 pm

Paul Johnson wrote:

On Sunday 18 May 2008 02:52:40 pm Trevorofmolino wrote:

extracted wine-0.9.60 and ran ./tools/wineinstall , it configured and
compiled. then after putting in root password I getcould not find wine on
your system.run wineinstall as root to install before rerunning wineinstall
as a user. So I enter root and root password and then i retry
./tools/wineinstall and get WINE Installer v0.75

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as
a user. Aborting.

wine is in directory /home/trevor/.wine/wine-0.9.60. How can I finish this
or will I have to uninstall and try installing manually?

Try following it's advice. Why are you logged in as root? If you're logged
in as root right now, log out right now! Log in as a normal, non-root user,
then go read this.
http://www.newlinuxuser.com/explain-why ... n-as-root/

Then, try again, and when you get output from software, read it.

Paul:

Your advice is admirable, but Wine should be installed as the root user
to prevent program corruption. wineinstall should do this. However,
wine and wineinstall should NOT be run as root.

The OP will have to deinstall wine and reinstall it in an appropriate
directory, like /usr/local/wine.

James McKenzie

Trevorofmolino · Post by **Trevorofmolino** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:43 pm

uninstalled wine and rm -rf ~/.wine. then extracted wine 0.9.60 to usr/local/wine. ran ./tools/wineinstall till it got to the part to put in the password for root. then it did the same thing as before:
Could not find wine on your system. Run wineinstall as root to install wine
before re-running wineinstall as a user.
Reread the installation instructions and the only thing I can do unless someone can find the problem is to wipe and remove all traces of wine and manually install.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:51 pm

Trevorofmolino wrote:uninstalled wine and rm -rf ~/.wine.

HUH? Wine is NOT installed there. This is Wine "configuration" ONLY!

Trevorofmolino wrote: then extracted wine 0.9.60 to usr/local/wine. ran ./tools/wineinstall

Don't use that script. Manually compile Wine or you won't see what wasn't compiled properly

Code: Select all

./configure --verbose
make depend
make all
sudo make install

Read here if you have any warnings: http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages

Trevorofmolino wrote:then it did the same thing as before:
Could not find wine on your system.

Have you removed your old installed Wine via your distro's package manager?

Trevorofmolino wrote: Run wineinstall as root to install wine
before re-running wineinstall as a user.
Reread the installation instructions and the only thing I can do unless someone can find the problem is to wipe and remove all traces of wine and manually install.

You can not mix and match self-compiled Wine and binary Wine installed from the package (unless you really know what you are doing).