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Old 11-15-2010, 04:59 PM   #1
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Ok, do I run ./wineinstall as root or not as root


I am familiar with compiling some programs, though I am basically a newbie (I am more use to using package managers such as apt-get, pacman, yum, etc,) I do know what I am doing. ./configure ./make ./makeinstall is usually how it goes.

So I read the readme file that came with wine 1.3.7. It stated that I could compile but it would be better to use the wine installer, ./tools/wininstaller.

So I did this as root.

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./wineinstall:
Wine Installer v1.0

You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
Aborting.
Ok, not an issue. I will just do it as user:

Quote:
./wineinstall
Wine Installer v1.0


We need to install Wine as the root user. Do you want us to build Wine,
'su root' and install Wine? Enter 'no' to build Wine without installing:
(yes/no)
Talk about some mixed messages here, lol. Which one should I do?

I am using Arch 64bit, no packages for it. I tried pacman -S wine and nothing. Besides I would rather get wine installed from source anyways.

Last edited by Amdx2_x64; 11-15-2010 at 05:57 PM. Reason: typed ./compile rather then ./configure
 
Old 11-15-2010, 05:19 PM   #2
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have you read the instructions on the Arch wiki ???
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine
 
Old 11-15-2010, 05:49 PM   #3
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have you read the instructions on the Arch wiki ???
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine

I really need to get use to checking that. I thought it would be straight forward though.. Let me check for the answer and post it back here.
 
Old 11-15-2010, 05:52 PM   #4
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Ok read through it. Looks like that is for the pacman install. I don't have the community mirrors active. Anyways I think I would rather do it from source. I might skip the wineinstaller and try it the old fashioned way.


Correction: I do have the community mirror active but wine does not show up with pacman -S.

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Old 11-15-2010, 06:04 PM   #5
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Ok. I just gave in and installed it with pacman. So never mind all, lol.
 
  


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