Daniel Skorka wrote:> David & Barbara Schmidt <davnbabs@airmail.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm an old-time Linux guy but somewhat new to Wine. Running Wine
0.9.2
>>on FC3. A few other apps have come up fine.
>
>
> 0.9.2 is old; 0.9.28 is current.
> Please 'rm -fr ~/.wine' before you try the new version.
Well, 0.9.2 is what apt-get drug in. Point taken. Will try latest
build before reverting to a (pirated but legitimized in my mind by the
purchase of EQ6) copy of EQ5.
Thank you, by the way, for being the only response thusfar.
>
>
>>Wife got Electric Quilt 6 for Christmas, so mounted the CD and ran
"wine
>>setup.exe." Got permission problems as my non-root user, so
su'd to
>>root and tried again. It complained that it needed IE 5 or above.
>
>
> Ugh. An old-time linux guy should know not to do that. Especially when
> dealing with beta software.
>
> Daniel
I presume you mean running as root. Yeah, a bit commando, but I got
tired of chmodding 777 various directories, and the eventual effect is
the same.....
Yet, point taken.
Thanx for helping........