I'm running 32-bit wine (from the multilib repo on arch) on a 64-bit system and have been trying to install Warcraft 3 and Steam. Steam installed fine but when I tried logging in, I would get the "could not connect to server" error. I couldn't even get warcraft 3 to install, it gave me some error like "GetDef.ins could not be found: unrecognized registry entry." After much googling and wine databasing I pretty much gave up but randomly tried wine with sudo priveleges. Ta-da! Everything worked. So I tried adding my user to all the groups that root was in (except root) and installing it as a regular user but no luck, same errors. What could possibly be the issue? I don't really feel like running as root every time I want to play a wine game.
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 14:35 -0600, iamsmrt wrote:> After much googling and wine databasing I pretty much gave up but > randomly tried wine with sudo priveleges. Ta-da! Everything worked. >Never do that unless you want to get taken over by rootkits, trojans, etc. Root is for sysadmin, not running random applications. The only things that should be run as root are upgrades, backups and some system services.> What could possibly be the issue? I don't really feel like running as > root every time I want to play a wine game. >Since 32 bit Wine currently works rather better than 64 bit wine, you could always install a 32 bit distro. Martin