On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:16:37 -0600 "veeseekay" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > am fairly new to wine and linux. I do not have sudo permissions on my box. > would like to know if there is some other way of installing wine ?(probably a zip distribution that would just require me to untar/unzip) or a hack? > > Please help. > > thanks! Are you using Ubuntu and did you set it up your self ? If so try "sudo gedit" type in your login password, if that works you can use sudo.