Systemwide WINE installation?

[VJ]

HI,

Is it possible to have a systemwide WINE installation?.

I would like to install the programs only once,and share it between multiple users

Cheers

[Cloudef]

Cut the .wine folder somewhere and then do link into it and put the link into every users home folder

[VJ]

Thanks for the reply.

Please could you confirm if you have tried this and has worked successfully?.

I was browsing through some threads and this one - http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t ... systemwide , says its not possible.

[John Drescher]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:49 AM, VJ <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

Please could you confirm if you have tried this and has worked successfully?.

The developers will warn you that this method will cause corruption of
the registry.

One idea around this is to use aufs and have the common .wine readonly
with each user having a rw mount that they can modify the same files.
pam_mount may help in this case. I have not tried this though..

John

[VJ]

Do we know - As per official WINE documentation, sharing a single instance of WINE among multiple users is supported?.
I couldnt find this anywhere.
If its not stated, I assume officially its not supported?.

What do you guys think?

Cheers.

[John Drescher]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM, VJ <[email protected]> wrote:

Do we know - As per official WINE documentation, sharing a single instance of WINE among multiple users is supported?.
I couldnt find this anywhere.
If its not stated, I assume officially its not supported?.

What do you guys think?

Its officially not supported. Their is a bug report for this and if
you read the list archives you should find the answer quickly. The
developers do explain the problem and their stance..

John

[Cloudef]

Yeah the thing is that if two Wineservers update the registry its gonna become broken. So you can do this if you copy the registry to the other wineprefix.