On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47, e8hffff <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to have wine's user directories in '/home/wine' but when I try to set the command ?wine WINEPREFIX=/home/wine ... it fails. ÂI've tried it with other variations too but to no success. ÂThe directory is already created at '/home/wine' with root/user permissions, and I'm a member of the user group. > > Most of the information on the internet is either old or refers to wine version 1.0 Âexecutables to set up environments, not found in latest release. > > The aim is I want to put all of wine's user content in the base of home directory and allow all users of the group 'users' to access wine. For wineprefix usage, see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ section 7.2 (basically WINEPREFIX is an environment variable, not an argument to wine) BTW never run wine as root; see FAQ for explanation