[Wine] Re: Wine on Solarix 10 x86
Duane Clark
dclark at akamail.com
Sun Feb 4 17:50:10 CST 2007
Amit Kotlovski wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I'm trying to get wine to run on Solaris 10 on an x86 platform. The
> machine is actually a virtual one running inside VMWare.
> After installing the Solaris, I installed the latest wine package from
> "The Solaris Wine Cellar" (http://www.blastwave.org/wine/). Their latest
> package is 0.9.25 .
>
> For the program I am trying to run I need to have DCOM installed.
>
> I managed to get the DCOM installer to run, but only under the root
> user. When I run it from a non-root user it fails miserably. Wine also
> does not create the ~/.wine folder
You need to find out why. DCOM should install fine as a regular use; at
least it does under Linux. Wine may not even work when run as root.
> ...
> It may have something to do with a couple of folders I have in /root:
> .wine-7GLNQe
> .wine-Pphs2I
> .wine-vSmU6i
I believe those are created when you try to run Wine while there are old
defunct wine processes around. However, don't run Wine as root.
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