creating wineprefix external to $HOME

Person_1873 · 01-16-2011, 06:58 PM

hey guys,

i've been trying to create a wine prefix that is able to be used by multiple users (i.e outside $HOME/* or /home/$USERNAME/*) so that i don't need to re-install programs for every user and use the extra disk space, however when i try to use winetricks in said prefix it complains that my user does not own the directory (even when i set it so that the user is the sole owner), please advise if this is possible and if not, why not?

jhuizer · 01-17-2011, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Person_1873

hey guys,

i've been trying to create a wine prefix that is able to be used by multiple users (i.e outside $HOME/* or /home/$USERNAME/*) so that i don't need to re-install programs for every user and use the extra disk space, however when i try to use winetricks in said prefix it complains that my user does not own the directory (even when i set it so that the user is the sole owner), please advise if this is possible and if not, why not?

I found, when directing the wine prefix to /tmp/wine, I need to mkdir /tmp/wine before being allowed to do WINEPREFIX=/tmp/wine wine whatever, even though /tmp is world-writable;

Hope that helps!

Person_1873 · 01-17-2011, 04:10 PM

@jhuizer the directory in fact already existed and i set the UNIX ownership and permissions to the user that needed access.

jhuizer · 01-18-2011, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Person_1873

@jhuizer the directory in fact already existed and i set the UNIX ownership and permissions to the user that needed access.

This must be something picky with ownerships... I don't really have much experience there;

I tried the following:

Code:

(as root)
addgroup wine
usermod -a -G wine (regular user)

cd /usr/local/
mkdir data
chown root:wine data
chmod 775 data

(as my regular user)
mkdir data/wine
chgrp wine data/wine
WINEPREFIX=/usr/local/data/wine winecfg

The end result still isn't very useful yet - the folder is still owned by me as the user, and 'wine' doesn't appear as group there currently; a recursive chown might help there, but am still not very sure whether this will really allow you to do what you want.

Couldn't get this to work without having a 'data' folder in between, I still got the error '/usr/local/wine is not owned by you'

Person_1873 · 01-18-2011, 10:26 PM

yea, i did this already too, it seems to be a problem with the winetricks script, might send this through to the devs as a bug report

jhuizer · 01-19-2011, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Person_1873

yea, i did this already too, it seems to be a problem with the winetricks script, might send this through to the devs as a bug report

I didn't use winetricks, just winecfg (a program that comes with wine) - so if you will ask or send a bug report, it might be better to post it for the wine program itself (winetricks is just a bash shell program that in turn calls wine)