I'm using kubuntu 8.04 and I'm able to run three programs that I installed but another user can't. Is there any way to make .wine available for all users? I thought about copying .wine to wine in /usr/lib/wine or /usr/bin/wine.
I might be a nub, but you could symlink a .wine dir for each user to your .wine directory... 2008/10/20 pcdoctor <wineforum-user at winehq.org>> I'm using kubuntu 8.04 and I'm able to run three programs that I installed > but another user can't. Is there any way to make .wine available for all > users? I thought about copying .wine to wine in /usr/lib/wine or > /usr/bin/wine. > > > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081020/371a4fea/attachment.htm
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:50:51AM -0500, pcdoctor wrote:> I'm using kubuntu 8.04 and I'm able to run three programs that I installed > but another user can't. Is there any way to make .wine available for > all users? I thought about copying .wine to wine in /usr/lib/wine or > /usr/bin/wine.That should work, better use /usr/wine or something under /opt. You have to set the WINEPREFIX variable to the location, also make sure you get the access rights right (Users need read access of course, avoid write access if possible) -Erik -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR
Warren Dumortier wrote:> I might be a nub, but you could symlink a .wine dir for each user to your .wine directory...No you can't.
Erik Hahn wrote:> Why not (as long as the permissions are set correctly, that is)?You can't share registry. You can't share any files read/write. And as Austin noted wineserver doesn't support more then one user per prefix. Each user have to have their own WINEPREFIX. You can only share files read-only or you risking file corruption.
why assume that two or more people will be running wine at the same time? from what i've gathered so far, most ppl have an ubuntu rig, which they have an account for them, another account for their sister/spouse/grandma or whoever. The whole idea is that the other accounts will be able to run their applications without having to access another account /home/~/.wine. we're talking about centralization here! Dont assume that every linux distro is to be run in a multi-user environment and dont assume that it is even running as server!! i think its quite possible if you put restrictions, and warnings and thus allowing one account to run wine at a given time
[quote="vitamin"] stimpak wrote:> why assume that two or more people will be running wine at the same time?Because this is waht *NIX is. And that is what it's made for. not anymore, or soon enough at least, more and more rigs are being sold with Ubuntu in them by default. Are we going to turn a blind eye on them and just say they're the minority and we dont care about them? austin987 wrote:> Of course, if you've got a better implementation that would prevent > corruption, etc., patches are welcome.Still working on that, need to learn C first and review the algorithms WINE uses to run
I think sharing 'wineserver' is better than sharing 'WINEPREFIX'. bcuz it's little bit risky to let a number of process access a file at the same time. Make the wineserver a real "server". This might be funny :D