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Folder Permissions Help

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stevedude
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Joined: Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:19 pm

Folder Permissions Help

#1 Post by stevedude »

I've been running into issues installing Wine-based (Windows) programs. I have both Playonlinux and the propriety CrossOver installed on my system and they would not install my programs. I switched to a console and tried to install from a terminal and I received this strange message "wine: /home/steve/.wine is not owned by you"

I looked that up and one of the suggestions was to delete the hidden /.wine folder then type "winecfg" and let it create a new folder. I did that and saw it did recreate the /.wine folder, then I tried to install my program via the terminal and got the same message. Then I tried to (re)set permissions and user so I tried the following with the same result:

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steve@mx-linux:~$ chown -R steve:steve /home/steve/.wine/ 
steve@mx-linux:~$ cd ~/Downloads/
steve@mx-linux:~/Downloads$ sudo wine theword-setup-en.exe 
wine: /home/steve/.wine is not owned by you
Any suggestions I can try? ~Thanks
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old_guy
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Re: Folder Permissions Help

#2 Post by old_guy »

stevedude
You typed:
steve@mx-linux:~/Downloads$ sudo wine theword-setup-en.exe
try just:
steve@mx-linux:~/Downloads$ wine theword-setup-en.exe
You want to install it as yourself.
Earl

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fehlix
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Re: Folder Permissions Help

#3 Post by fehlix »

stevedude wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:15 pm .. message "wine: /home/steve/.wine is not owned by you"
...
Any suggestions I can try? ~Thanks
Yes, avoid running anything as root if not needed. If you want to keep a stable system.
To emergency *sigh" fix ownership
run

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sudo chown -R  steve:steve /home/steve
Do NOT run wine as root. Always run wine as normal user.
This is highly not recommended.

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# DON'T DO THIS: :bawling: 
# sudo wine theword-setup-en.exe 
:puppy:
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stevedude
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Re: Folder Permissions Help

#4 Post by stevedude »

Thank you both for the assistance. I ran the permissions and then:

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steve@mx-linux:~/Downloads$ wine theword-setup-en.exe
Without 'sudo' ;-)

Making progress, but this is the terminal output:

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steve@mx-linux:~/Downloads$ wine theword-setup-en.exe 
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000008 at address 0x7fb2bdf01109 (thread 0022), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000004 at address 0x3ffff000:0x7fb2b8b6 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger ("winedbg --auto 8 92") (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger
err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 992 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7bc9a7fd esp 00240f50 stack 0x240000-0x241000-0x340000
I'll also research this error to see if I can turn up something.
OS:MX-19.2_x64|Kernel:4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64|Xfce 4.14.2|Mobo:TUF X470-PLUS|CPU AMD Ryzen 5, 2600 MHz
Graphics:GeForce GTX 1060,driver:nvidia v:390.77|Audio:NVIDIA snd_hda_intel
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