On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:48 -0500, Sai wrote: > I am completely new to wine. I remember reading somewhere that the > problem(.wine is not owned by you) occurs when wine is run under sudo > or root. If you started using Wine as a normal user, continue to do so (this appears to be the case). NEVER RUN WINE AS ROOT. Please see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014 before continuing. > I am not familiar with the unix part of Mac os, but I do know that > sudo is a command and root is a type of user/access who has control > over the entire computer like an administrator.Does that mean that I > can't run wine from my administrator account on my mac? If so, how can > I run wine without giving root access while I am using my admin > account. root=admin account; use a normal user that is not root. -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080611/535a5df7/attachment.pgp