Problem with installing on root account on CentOS VPS

[Landias]

I've been trying to set up Wine on a VPS of mine for a little over six hours now, and I'm still stuck at one point. I'm following a guide to install Wine on a CentOS 5.8 OS, and everything's gone perfect, until I hit the step to actually install the program. I was attempting to install Wine as the root user, however, that's neither good practice, nor allowed by what I'm taking to be the VPS's rules. I've attempted to create a new user without root access so I can log onto my VPS as that user to actually install and run Wine, but I've encountered a roadblock in that I don't know what I'm supposed to do, and I don't know how to pose this question to Google to sow any solutions. So, can anyone help me here on the Wine forums?

If it helps, I'm using RealVNC viewer to access my CentOS VPS from my main computer. I've tried to create another account with "useradd ****** " , and of course setting the passwd for that user, and I apparently have been successful with that, but RealVNC won't allow me to change the user at it's user password screen, and I can't seem to find any way to change the user while I'm actually in my VPS.

[dimesio]

How exactly are you trying to install Wine? Binary packages have to be installed as root. If you are building Wine yourself, you can just run it from the build directory.

Much of your problem seems to be with not knowing how to use the VPS, which is not a Wine issue. Ask for help on the support forum for your VPS.

[Landias]

How exactly are you trying to install Wine? Binary packages have to be installed as root. If you are building Wine yourself, you can just run it from the build directory.

Much of your problem seems to be with not knowing how to use the VPS, which is not a Wine issue. Ask for help on the support forum for your VPS.

Good point, I was trying to cast my net as wide as possible to see if anyone on here could help. I suppose it is more of a VPS-specific question. Alright, thanks for your time.