http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564
Summary: Wineinstall broken on systems with root user disabled Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-tools AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: scott@open-vote.org
I run Ubuntu, which disables the root user and relies on sudo instead. Wineinstall's script makes use of su, which presents a problem when it's not enabled.
Wineinstall fails with this error:
Performing 'make install' as root to install binaries, enter root password Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry. Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry.
Either you entered an incorrect password or we failed to run 'make install;echo /usr/local/lib>>/etc/ld.so.conf;/sbin/ldconfig' correctly. If you didn't enter an incorrect password then please report this error and any steps to possibly reproduce it to http://bugs.winehq.org/