On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, okie2003 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > :( Sorry for the long post. I am a newbie, so I don't really know what I am doing. I am running Mepis 7.0 (Debian based) and have installed git 4.3.20-10, git-core 1:1.4.4.4-2, cogito, and ccache 2.4. When I attempt to run according to the wiki this is what I get: > > Rob@Office:~$ whereis git-core > git-core: /usr/share/git-core > Rob@Office:~$ cd /usr/share/ > Rob@Office:/usr/share$ su root > Password: > root@Office:/usr/share# git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git Why are you cloning as root?