On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Timeout <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But I don't want to run it as root. > When running as user I get the error message. > Whether I use yast, yum or su and then exiting su before starting the it's the same. And now I get told that I am running as root [Rolling Eyes] > > I guess I will have to wait for Suse 11. I do not want to change settings to please a software because I can never be sure that it won't mess with the rest (do I have to change the temp's ownership every time I am using another user?). > > I am running here in circles. You can lock the thread, it's not going anywhere. > A lot of confusion has been introduced by root vs user flamewar. To be clear, does: $ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.bak $ wineprefixcreate $ wine setup.exe $ wine your_program.exe Fix the problem (please try this in wine 0.9.58, unpatched, unless there is a different/bug regression you are working around)?