file operations issues?

Spad · Post by **Spad** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:39 pm

hello everybody, I'm new here.

so, I'm running on SimplyMEPIS 7.0 64-bit, and using a 64-bit Wine 1.0 RC1.

I'm having a problem that I had in the past too.
certain programs give an error about not being able to access a certain file.
I copied the software onto the Linux partition in its whole, data files and all, even ran Wine as root, but to no avail.

I have the impression this is because the apps want to access the files in a way which Wine can't translate to the OS.

anyway, you know better. what's the solution?

thanks in anticipation.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:34 pm

Spad wrote:I copied the software onto the Linux partition in its whole,

Don't do that install all programs on Wine.

Spad wrote:even ran Wine as root, but to no avail.

Even worse idea - now you broke what you had. Remove ~/.wine directory, verify it's removed and install your programs.

Spad · Post by **Spad** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:48 pm

I'll be Bach.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:32 pm

vitamin wrote:

Spad wrote:

I copied the software onto the Linux partition in its whole,

Don't do that install all programs on Wine.

Spad wrote:

even ran Wine as root, but to no avail.

Even worse idea - now you broke what you had. Remove ~/.wine directory, verify it's removed and install your programs.

Spad:

You will have to remove .wine either as root or using the sudo command.

As vitamin pointed out: Never run Wine as ROOT.

James McKenzie