wine users - Feb 2009 - Is there a way to globely install software

it there a way to install software so that all users on my system can access it 
or am I stuck with installing the same software over and over for each user
(huge waste of disk space )

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, rob.rice <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> it there a way to install software so that all users on my system can
access it
No.
> or am I stuck with installing the same software over and over for each user
(huge waste of disk space )
For now. It's disabled because sharing a wineserver can cause
corruption. You can work around it, but it's not supported (search the
forums for examples.


-- 
-Austin

You can consider my crude partial solution, as I just posted a while ago in
another related thread:
> 
> I never install the software in the C: drive (unless I'm forced to by a
dumb installer). I use a common drive letter, say E:, which points to a common
folder say /Winsoft, chmoded 774. Installs in there are usually chmoded -R to
774 or 777.
> 
> I also use different .wine folders for each install which I copy to each
user's home within ~/Wineprefixes. I also manually copy desktop launchers
around and adjust then the path for each user (this is a family setup). Every
time I start a new install, I configure wine to make sure E:->/Winsoft.
> 
> Furthermore, home folders are shared over a network of three computers
using NFS but, for performance reasons, I copy the software installs over the
net into the a folder /Winsoft specific to each computer.
> 
> This works mostly fine for a small setup of 3 computers and 5 users. Wow is
always complaining about changes in hardware, but it works.
>

there would be only one user at a time on the computer 
I have root , rob .and guest accounts ( but may add more )
the guest account is for the times I let other people use my computer

> there would be only one user at a time on the computer
> I have root , rob .and guest accounts ( but may add more )
> the guest account is for the times I let other people use my computer
>
>
>    
To allow other users to use a single wine prefix, comment these lines in 
file wine-1.1.14/libs/wine/config.c

#ifdef HAVE_GETUID
if (st.st_uid != getuid()) fatal_error( "%s is not owned by you\n", 
config_dir );
#endif

This works for me.

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Thank you

Maicon Vinicius Nunes wrote:
> To allow other users to use a single wine prefix, comment these lines in
file wine-1.1.14/libs/wine/config.c
Really bad idea. They are there for a good reason. DO NOT recommend things like
that here.

Having multiple users using the same prefix will corrupt it. This is not
supported yet.