Hi,
I'm new to Linux, so please bear with me. I installed PlayOnLinux, which then asked me to insall Wine so I did that as well. I installed Amazon Kindle via POL but it refused to launch, just saying that POL had encountered an error. So I uninstalled it to start over. I then downloaded the installer.exe file for Kindle, created a directory for it in "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon" and placed the installer.exe there. Next, I navigated to the Amazon folder in the terminal and ran "wine KindleForPC-installer.exe" which seemed to work fine. However, the install placed the launcher file in "/root/Desktop" and the My Kindle Content folder in "/root". Kindle will launch from there and work correctly, but I really don't want it in the root directory where I don't have ownership. To put it simply, I want the launcher and content folder in my home directory like everything else. Since I don't have ownership of root though, I can't even move the files to the desired location.
Very frustrated. Can anyone help with this?
[SOLVED] Wine is installing to root folder instead of home.
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M0rph3us
[SOLVED] Wine is installing to root folder instead of home.
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Mute Ant
Re: Wine is installing to root folder instead of home.
The only way it can get into /root/ is if you used sudo. It sounds like the Wine software installer made a failed attempt to find /root/.wine/ and used /root/ instead. So, don't use sudo, you are not installing software into the Linux system and you really don't want wild code outside of /home. New Wine programs should arrive right where you put the installer, in the pseudo-windows area of your home folder...
- ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/
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M0rph3us
Re: Wine is installing to root folder instead of home.
Sorry to not reply sooner.
I use keystroke combinations to launch terminal and root terminal, and I must have used root to install it the first time. After wiping everything and starting over, paying close attention to where things were installing, it all works correctly now.
Thanks for the help!
I use keystroke combinations to launch terminal and root terminal, and I must have used root to install it the first time. After wiping everything and starting over, paying close attention to where things were installing, it all works correctly now.
Thanks for the help!