wine users - Dec 2006 - wine not initializing correctly?

I installed wine using the fc5 repositories.  

# wine --version
Wine 0.9.24

I then try to use winecfg and get: 

# winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
Failed to open the service control manager.

It hangs here forever.  However, it does create a wine directory with random
extension:
e.g. .wine-SMvQR6  

Everytime I run the winecfg command, I get another directory with a different
random extension.  I thought that if I ran this as root, it would create a
global directory so that any package installed would be available for any user,
but .. I can't  even get winecfg to work.

What am I doing wrong?

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins

Hi,

--- dahopkins@comcast.net a ?crit :
> I installed wine using the fc5 repositories.  
> 
> # wine --version
> Wine 0.9.24
try to update, Wine 0.9.27 is out.
 
> I then try to use winecfg and get: 
> 
> # winecfg
> wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
> Failed to open the service control manager.
dont run user programs with the root account.


Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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