wine users - Dec 2010 - "running wineinstall as root" error - Mac OS X

I run Mac OS X 10.6.5.  There are a bunch of Windows programs I would very much
like to run, and my latest OS update broke my copy of CrossOver Games, so I
decided to get Wine.

None of the ten binary download packages on the download page said Mac anywhere
on them, so I decided I would have to download the source code and run from the
command line.  I don't like this, since I'm not extremely tech savvy; I
don't know half of what I can probably do from the command line.

The readme file says:
> Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
> Installer to build and install Wine.  From the top-level directory
> of the Wine source (which contains this file), run:
> 
> ./tools/wineinstall

So I type:
> cd /Users/hill/Desktop/Warehouse/wine-1.2.2

This works (I confirm it with an ls call).  Then this exchange occurs:

> Macintosh-265:wine-1.2.2 hill$ ./tools/wineinstall
> Wine Installer v1.0
> 
> You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as
a user.
> Aborting.
I did exactly as I was told and I hit a wall!  I have no idea what to do at this
point.  I used Google to look for the error message I got, but couldn't make
heads or tails of any of the results.

Any assistance would be highly appreciated... I have hardly any idea what
I'm doing.

if you try to build from source, you are going to be missing many things
you'll have to get installed first...

If you want standard default command line only Wine, I'd really recommend
using Macports, as it can do an install and take care of everything you need
automatically.

you may also want to use a different 3rd party tool to use Wine on OSX since
there is no official binary for it.  There is one thats a script to help you get
dependencies to build Wine right.

http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications

but to your main problem, Wine installer shouldn't think you are root,
unless you enabled the root user and used su to su in as root... or ran the
installer using sudo.

SonicLover <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>Sent: Dec 22, 2010 1:06 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Re: "running wineinstall as root" error - Mac OS
X
>
>Thanks for the feedback... I deleted the source code download and am
installing PlayOnMac right now.  (It's taking a while
>to install XQuartz, hmmm...)
If you have problems with XQuartz, please let the PlayOnMac folks know.  This is
not something we support.
>
>I'll report back if things go wrong again.
Please let us know if there are Wine problems.

James McKenzie