On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:32 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > rob.rice wrote: > > > > vitamin wrote: > > > > > > rob.rice wrote: > > > > did that and this is my out put from wine setup > > > > > > > > root@darkstar:~# wine setup > > > > > > Two things. > > > - What Wine version? (run 'wine --version') > > > - Why are you running as root? You should not ever need to run as root on *NIX unless you performing system maintenance. > > > > > > "why are you running as root ?" > > habit I test all my new software as root to make sure the problems I run in to > > aren't permission problems > > the out put for " wine version " is almost the same as " wine setup " just longer > > Don't use root here as you clearly broke your configuration for Wine. Remove ~/.wine directory for BOTH user and root. Then try again. > > And I'm asking again, what is the Wine version are you using??? Post complete output of running 'wine --version'. > > > > > > After $ rm -rf ~/.wine $ wine --version wine-0.9.58 Does: $ wine setup.exe Work?