Cannot run wineinstall

[Carlos Tiba]

It displays the message:

" You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please
rerun as a user.
Aborting. "

However it is not possible to install anything on Ubuntu Linux if
you-re not root.

The command:
$ sudo ./wineinstall

does not run after passwd enter because of the message above.

How is it possible?

Thanks

Carlos Tiba

[Austin English]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Carlos Tiba <carlostiba(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It displays the message:
>
> " You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please
> rerun as a user.
> Aborting. "
>
> However it is not possible to install anything on Ubuntu Linux if
> you-re not root.

You'll be asked for the password after compiling wine.
> The command:
> $ sudo ./wineinstall
>
> does not run after passwd enter because of the message above.
>
> How is it possible?

You could use a premade package, or just run ./configure && make &&
sudo make install.

In any case, these sort of questions belong on the forum, not wine-devel.

Cheers,
Austin