Wine doesnt install exes into Program Files

[RagingPixels]

hi,

i started to use wine recently and while emulation works fine when i copy an on windows installed program into wines
Program Files directory, i cant seem to be able to install exe files through wine. the exe file runs fine and seems to install everything,
and if the setup gives the option to start the program directly from the setup after installation, that too works fine most of the time.
But no Files are created in wines directory or anywhere else, so the only option would be to reinstall everytime i want to use a program again.

Thanks in Advance for any help

[dimesio]

No one's ever reported that problem before.

Let's start with the basics: What distro are you using, what version of Wine, what app are you trying to install, and how, exactly, are you running the installer?

[RagingPixels]

I am running LMDE UP8 right now, with wine 1.4 from the repositories,
but Im gonna build 1.6.2 later today and see if it works better.
The problem is the same regardless of which program i install so it isnt a problem of a specific exe.
To install i simply open it from commandline with "wine Path/to/exe.exe"
I also tried with root privileges, but they dont help either.

[dimesio]

If you ran Wine as root, you have messed up the permissions in the wineprefix. Delete it and recreate it as a normal user.

If that doesn't fix it, pick an app to test and post terminal output from running the installer in 1.6.2.