Can wine have global system settings? or use sudo?

rolandixor · Post by **rolandixor** » Thu May 29, 2008 12:23 pm

Hi!
I've been using wine a while now with great success.
However, I'm about to introduce others to linux using Ubuntu 8.04.

The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!
I can't have that issue in the way! They won't be as patient as me!

Please tell me there is a way around this, like using /usr/share/wine?

lol.
I'm almost commanding you to tell me yes!!!

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 29, 2008 12:51 pm

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM, rolandixor <[email protected]> wrote:

[Question] Hi!
I've been using wine a while now with great success.
However, I'm about to introduce others to linux using Ubuntu 8.04.

The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!
I can have that issue in the way! They won't be as patient as me!

Please tell me there is a way around this, like using /usr/share/wine? [Rolling Eyes] [Crying or Very sad] [Wink] [Exclamation] [Question] [Idea] [Arrow]

lol.
I'm almost commanding you to tell me yes!!!

Short answer is no. Wine is not (currently) meant to be shared amongst
users. Some users have tweaked around this...try searching the forum
for a few examples.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 29, 2008 1:55 pm

rolandixor wrote:The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!

You can try and copy the ~/.wine directory for each user (resetting owner/group). See if that works. You might need to check registry, symlinks to make sure they don't point to original user's directoies

rolandixor · Post by **rolandixor** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:14 pm

thanks guys.

to vitamin:
nice name!

rolandixor · Post by **rolandixor** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:15 pm

vitamin wrote:
rolandixor wrote:The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!
You can try and copy the ~/.wine directory for each user (resetting owner/group). See if that works. You might need to check registry, symlinks to make sure they don't point to original user's directoies

that's sadly not what I'd like.

rolandixor · Post by **rolandixor** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:16 pm

austin987 wrote:On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM, rolandixor <[email protected]> wrote:
[Question] Hi!
I've been using wine a while now with great success.
However, I'm about to introduce others to linux using Ubuntu 8.04.

The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!
I can have that issue in the way! They won't be as patient as me!

Please tell me there is a way around this, like using /usr/share/wine? [Rolling Eyes] [Crying or Very sad] [Wink] [Exclamation] [Question] [Idea] [Arrow]

lol.
I'm almost commanding you to tell me yes!!!

Short answer is no. Wine is not (currently) meant to be shared amongst
users. Some users have tweaked around this...try searching the forum
for a few examples.

any chance you can help me find at least two?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:32 pm

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM, rolandixor <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM, rolandixor <[email protected]> wrote:

[Question] Hi!
I've been using wine a while now with great success.
However, I'm about to introduce others to linux using Ubuntu 8.04.

The issue is, I'll have to install every program and library 3 or more times!!!
I can have that issue in the way! They won't be as patient as me!

Please tell me there is a way around this, like using /usr/share/wine? [Rolling Eyes] [Crying or Very sad] [Wink] [Exclamation] [Question] [Idea] [Arrow]

lol.
I'm almost commanding you to tell me yes!!!

Short answer is no. Wine is not (currently) meant to be shared amongst
users. Some users have tweaked around this...try searching the forum
for a few examples.
any chance you can help me find at least two?

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t ... t=multiple

rolandixor · Post by **rolandixor** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:58 pm

gracias, thanks, merci...