I'm using wine (1.1.37) in Ubuntu Karmic and I can't install original software from a CD/DVD. Set-up.exe won't run because I need "Administrator privileges" or I need to be logged as an administrator. I've searched exhaustively for a solution, but I have only found more and more people complaining about the same problem when trying to run either a game or any other software. No thread with a solution though. I found an answer from Holly Bostick explaining the reason for this problem, apparently being windows version. > The cause of this problem is most likely a combination of 2 factors: > > 1) The fact that Wine now defaults to 'emulating' Windows 2K by default, > rather than Windows 98; and > > 2) The fact that many Windows programs of a certain type, when they were > updated to work with Win2K from previous compatibility with Win98 (which > does not have an Administrator), began to require Administrator > privileges under 2K and higher to install. This usually happens with > utilities like defrag utilities or other scanners/blockers/repair utils > that can be run as a service. This at least makes sense, as in order to > run as a service, the application has to hook into the > M(icrosoft)M(anagement)C(onsole), which is an Administrator-only system > application. But I have, oddly enough, seen programs which would seem to > have no use for administrative privileges require them on installation; > recent versions of PaintShopPro are one example of this. > > The 'solution' is to tell the application that it's being installed > under Win98 (assuming that the program is willing to install under > Win98), rather than 2K. Since as far as I know, there is no > implementation of Windows' fairly sorry implementation of user privilege > separation in Wine (meaning that, afaik, you cannot become the Windows > Administrator under Wine), the only other option is to go back to the > 'good old days' where it didn't exist (Win98). > > Unfortunately that is not the solution either. When I tried the suggestion, I got a message saying the application could not run with the current version of Windows -because it's too old now, I guess. > > Is there a real solution for this? I can't find it anywhere. Unfortunately I've already erased my windows partition so I'm stranded in the middle of nowhere. > > Help would be much appreciated. > > Thx.
