On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:40 AM, farna <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I didn't originally install or run WINE as root, or install the program (IL-2) as root. I only ran the patch for the program as root. Maybe the patch didn't > take because of that? You may have to fix permissions on your Wine 'hidden' directory. The Wine FAQ has instructions on how to fix this. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ is where the FAQ is located. > > I'll try running the patch again as the normal user and see if that helps. I only ran it as root because I had to open it as root to change the > executable bit, just ran it from there after that was changed. FYI, you should not have needed to use root to change a file permission if you downloaded it as a regular user. Something else is not right here but that is outside of the Wine projects scope. > > If that fails I'll uninstall IL-2 then uninstall WINE and start over -- install WINE from the repository then try installing IL-2 and the patch all over again. You do not need to uninstall Wine. You can do the following if you want to generate a new Wine directory/repository: [code] cd $HOME rm -rf .wine [/code] James McKenzie > > > > > >
