I've downloaded the latest, which is supposed to have glibc2.3 support. I installed the tar ball, but when I go to execute, it wants a directory /tmp/.wine-user. I give it a directory, and then it wants a socket. Whats a socket? How do I appease wine?

Did you check your Wine config file (usually in ~/.wine/config)? Sometimes there is config info there that isn't accurate. For example a lot of times I'll get floppy or CD-Rom errors because the config file info is wrong. I don't know why it would be trying to use a socket though, that's never happened for me...

its happened to me, but I just delete the directory it complains about and then it works.

Well, i deleted the directories there, and here is the error I now get:

$$wine
$$wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-user/server-303-1251e7 : No such file or directory

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I tried to reinstall wine and got these errors after it made a new .wine/config file:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Compiling regedit...
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Preparing to install default Wine registry entries...
Installing default Wine registry entries...

wine: lstat /tmp/.wine-thomas/server-303-1251e7/socket : No such file or directory
Registry install failed.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Is this a socket for writing to the disk or something???

You need to run configure like so:

./configure --with-nptl

This will become auto detected at runtime in the next few weeks hopefully, I answer this socket question every single day at the moment

(wipes brow!)

Dude!!! Thanks a ton!