On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 18:16 -0500, r2rX wrote: > Hmm.... > > Well, until now, when I install WINE and install/uninstall winetricks > (in synaptic package manager), the file always ends up in /usr/bin. > As doh123 said, if your distro put winetricks in /usr/bin, leave it there. > Although, the .wine folder IS in my home folder. And when I > access /root/, I don't see a .wine folder. > Quite right - there should not be one in root's directory. > But I did run winetricks as 'su', so that probably messed things up. > > So, at this point, what is the necessary steps to correct this? > You also have a copy of .wine in /usr/bin and that should be removed. Run the following as root or via sudo: cd /usr/bin; rm -rf .wine > I'm planning on uninstalling WINE and winetricks completely, then > reinstalling wine and manually placing winetricks in my /usr/local/bin > folder (with permissions set to my profile) and try again. > The usual set-up is to give read and execute permissions to everybody and restrict write permission to the file's owner: chmod ga-w winetricks # make sure group and all can't write it chmod u+w winetricks # make sure the file's owner can write it chmod uga+rx winetricks # give read/execute to everybody After all, you wouldn't put an executable in /usr/local/bin unless you expect it to be generally used - if you wanted it to only be accessed by one user you'd: - create a directory $HOME/bin in that user - add $HOME/bin to the user's search path by editing .bash_profile - put the executable in $HOME/bin - make it executable: chmod u+x filename Martin
