I would like to have wine's user directories in '/home/wine' but when I try to set the command ?wine WINEPREFIX=/home/wine ... it fails. I've tried it with other variations too but to no success. The directory is already created at '/home/wine' with root/user permissions, and I'm a member of the user group. Most of the information on the internet is either old or refers to wine version 1.0 executables to set up environments, not found in latest release. The aim is I want to put all of wine's user content in the base of home directory and allow all users of the group 'users' to access wine.
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47, e8hffff <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I would like to have wine's user directories in '/home/wine' but when I try to set the command ?wine WINEPREFIX=/home/wine ... it fails. ?I've tried it with other variations too but to no success. ?The directory is already created at '/home/wine' with root/user permissions, and I'm a member of the user group. > > Most of the information on the internet is either old or refers to wine version 1.0 ?executables to set up environments, not found in latest release. > > The aim is I want to put all of wine's user content in the base of home directory and allow all users of the group 'users' to access wine.For wineprefix usage, see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ section 7.2 (basically WINEPREFIX is an environment variable, not an argument to wine) BTW never run wine as root; see FAQ for explanation
Ok thanks for the reply Fr??d??ric Delanoy. I've had some success including the info you linked to which specifies that you can't run under multi users. I had to run: export WINEPREFIX=/home/wine Then I had to make sure that directory was owned by me. Then wine created it's files in that directory as soon as I initiated a wine executable. Preferably you'd run winechg at this stage. The main reason why I wanted wine working out of the my home directory was that I have that dir encrypted and don't want the wine folders losing speed in any decryption.