wine users - Feb 2009 - /var/wine not owned by you

In an effort to set up a system-wide wine folder, I have moved mine to
/var/wine, set WINEPREFIX to /var/wine for all users, and changed the
permissions for /var/wine and it's contents to root:wine rwxr-xr-x. The wine
registry and the savegame directories for my games have g+w as well. I am a
member of the wine group.
When I attempt to run wine, I get the error message "wine: /var/wine not
owned by you". Since I have group permissions, why is it a problem that the
directory is not owned by me, and what can I do about it given I need a
system-wide wine folder?

klkblake <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
>Sent: Feb 10, 2009 10:58 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  /var/wine not owned by you
>
>In an effort to set up a system-wide wine folder, I have moved mine to
/var/wine, set WINEPREFIX to /var/wine for all users, and changed the
permissions for /var/wine and it's contents to root:wine rwxr-xr-x. The wine
registry and the savegame directories for my games have g+w as well. I am a
member of the wine group.
>When I attempt to run wine, I get the error message "wine: /var/wine
not owned by you". Since I have group permissions, why is it a problem that
the directory is not owned by me, and what can I do about it given I need a
system-wide wine folder?
>
The ability to do what you are describing is disabled in Wine.  What EXACTLY are
you trying to do?  If it is avoiding installing programs for each user on your
system, that is not possible with Wine, yet.  You will have to establish a
separate Wine folder for each Linux user you want to be able to run Wine and
then install applications to that folder.

James McKenzie

klkblake wrote:
> In an effort to set up a system-wide wine folder
This is not supported. You can not share one instance of Wine between multiple
users.

vitamin wrote:
> This is not supported. You can not share one instance of Wine between
multiple users.
Back to individual folders it is then. Thanks for the help.