wine users - Jul 2008 - Installer Requires Administrator Priviledges

Installation of my app gets as far as a message from SetupMgr that reads:

> You do not have administrator priviledges on this machine.
> Setup cannot continue.

I know that running Wine (1.1.0 in my case) as root is not recommended.   :) 

I'm running an Ubunut 8.04 derivative, so I know I'm not running as
root.  :D

Any suggestions of a work around ?

I tried sudoing everything with the same result.  [Shocked] 

I've check Bugzilla and the Wiki.  I tried winetricks vcrun6 as is
recommended for Photoshopt CS2.  Same result.

On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, Forester wrote:
> Installation of my app gets as far as a message from SetupMgr that reads:
> > You do not have administrator priviledges on this machine.
> > Setup cannot continue.
I wonder whether the .wine folder got created when you were installing your 
Windows app as sudo, and perhaps your .wine folder now has the wrong 
permissions?  Try opening a command prompt and typing...

$ cd
$ ls -al | grep wine

Output of that command on my system:
drwxr-xr-x  4 chris  chris           4096 2008-06-29 20:06 .wine
              ^^^^^  ^^^^^
              owner  group

... and have a look at the owner and group of the directory - it should be 
your username repeated twice - if it's "root   root" then you have
a problem.
You should be able to (substituting "chris" for your username):

$ sudo chown -R chris:chris .wine

Alternatively if you don't mind starting from scratch, simple remove 
your .wine folder.

Obviously if you are using a different folder than .wine change above 
accordingly.

--
Chris Roberts

> You do not have administrator priviledges on this machine.
> Setup cannot continue.
> 
The way round this is to set the Windows Version to Windows 98 where the
question of administrator does not arise.  [Embarassed]