wine users - Jul 2010 - shared .wine directory?

Is it possible to have a shared .wine directory?  I have office 2007 on my
machine and wish to have it accessible for three users without the need to
install three copies of it.

graysky wrote:
> Is it possible to have a shared .wine directory?  I have office 2007 on my
machine and wish to have it accessible for three users without the need to
install three copies of it.


..can't edit my post!

I was going to add: should I just ln -s
/path/to/.wine/c_drive?Program_files/Office in the other two user's path
or...?

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 00:51, graysky <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Is it possible to have a shared .wine directory? ?I have office 2007 on my
machine and wish to have it accessible for three users without the need to
install three copies of it.
No. At least not easily without fiddling with permissions, and coping
with links, ...

IIRC, a version of CrossOver allows this, though (haven't tested myself)

So I'd say don't bother doing that unless you like resolving lots of
problems... (and disk space is cheap now)

Fr?d?ric Delanoy

graysky wrote:
> Is it possible to have a shared .wine directory?  I have office 2007 on my
machine and wish to have it accessible for three users without the need to
install three copies of it.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f54d469b937b82e6d757a851dfcece0167919859

graysky wrote:
> Is it possible to have a shared .wine directory?  I have office 2007 on my
machine and wish to have it accessible for three users without the need to
install three copies of it.
Well, if your exact concern is having three copies of the same application
taking up space, that can be avoided by installing to a mounted drive/partition
accessible to all users via Wine's dosdevices.

I, for example, have a second drive, with a partition called
"Gamestuff" (mounted to /media/Gamestuff), which I always set as
"F:\" in my WINEPREFIX (I make a new one for most every game/app I
install). During the install, I never install to the default location of
"C:\Program Files", but always to the "F:\" drive, allowing
the application to additionally create its own company name/game name folders
(so MS Office would be installed to "F:\Microsoft Office\whatever").
In this way I keep all my applications in one easily-accessible place, even
though they all have their own prefix.

There is no way to avoid having to run the install multiple times for multiple
users, as far as I know, but you don't have to have multiple copies of the
same application in order for multiple users to use the one copy (just install
the subsequent installs to the same mounted location as the original and allow
it to overwrite itself).

Hope this helps,
Holly