tony.chamberlain wrote: > I just installed wine and am having trouble installing. I get the message > > The authority of the current user is limited. The program will exit > > further details show > > Only members of the administrators group can install programs > > I found something on the web page about creating a windows user with no > password, and doing a lot of changes to /etc/sudoers adding WINDOWS_ADMIN > and WINDOWS_USERS and several other things. I did this and still got the > same error. > > Then I thought maybe I needed to make a new group so I did > > groupadd administrators > usermod -a -G administrators chamberl > usermod -a -G administrators root > > and logged out and back in (to get me into that group) but when I tried > to install I still got the same error message. There is probably something > simple I am missing, but I can't figure it out. Can anyone help? > > This is LinuxMint. Can't find the version but the kernel is > 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 and wine is > wine-1.2.2 > > I tried both through > > wine explorer > > and directly cd'ing to the directory and doing wine ./setup.exe Thanks you for the post.
