I just installed wine and am having trouble installing. I get the message
The authority of the current user is limited. The program will exit
further details show
Only members of the administrators group can install programs
I found something on the web page about creating a windows user with no
password, and doing a lot of changes to /etc/sudoers adding WINDOWS_ADMIN
and WINDOWS_USERS and several other things. I did this and still got the
same error.
Then I thought maybe I needed to make a new group so I did
groupadd administrators
usermod -a -G administrators chamberl
usermod -a -G administrators root
and logged out and back in (to get me into that group) but when I tried
to install I still got the same error message. There is probably something
simple I am missing, but I can't figure it out. Can anyone help?
This is LinuxMint. Can't find the version but the kernel is
2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 and wine is
wine-1.2.2
I tried both through
wine explorer
and directly cd'ing to the directory and doing wine ./setup.exe
tony.chamberlain wrote:> Only members of the administrators group can install programs > wine is wine-1.2.2Upgrade Wine first. The latest version is wine-1.3.21. If that won't fix your problem, then this program can't be installed in Wine. You could still be able to install it on Windows and copy (files and related registry entries) to Wine. What you trying to do (adding yourself to the root group) won't have any affects. Wine already reporting user to have full administrative privileges.
-----Original Message----- From: bauer5152 [mailto:wineforum-user at winehq.org] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 04:11 AM To: wine-users at winehq.org Subject: [Wine] Re: installation tony.chamberlain wrote:> I just installed wine and am having trouble installing. I get the message > > The authority of the current user is limited. The program will exit > > further details show > > Only members of the administrators group can install programs > > I found something on the web page about creating a windows user with no > password, and doing a lot of changes to /etc/sudoers adding WINDOWS_ADMIN > and WINDOWS_USERS and several other things. I did this and still got the > same error. > > Then I thought maybe I needed to make a new group so I did > > groupadd administrators > usermod -a -G administrators chamberl > usermod -a -G administrators root > > and logged out and back in (to get me into that group) but when I tried > to install I still got the same error message. There is probably something > simple I am missing, but I can't figure it out. Can anyone help? > > This is LinuxMint. Can't find the version but the kernel is > 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 and wine is > wine-1.2.2 > > I tried both through > > wine explorer > > and directly cd'ing to the directory and doing wine ./setup.exe>Thanks you for the post.Um, if that's serious then you're welcome. If not, then I do not understand.
Yeah, I'd uninstall the old WINE, delete the old .wine folder, and install the new WINE. Save anything you need to keep first, of course. I'd also undo any funny user account stuff you did. You don't want to run WINE as root. If you add your user to the root group and run WINE as you, I'm worried that might be the same as running WINE as root. Cheers, Jake