I installed a recent version of Wine from linux packages (slack 10.0)
and it works as root.

When I try it as a regular user I get cannot open (null) Here's an
example:
keith@localhost:/Win/Program Files$ wine spider.exe
wine: cannot open (null)

I looked through the package and couldn't find any obvious place where
the permissions are preventing a general user from running wine
applications.

Anybody have a hint?

Keith wrote:
> keith@localhost:/Win/Program Files$ wine spider.exe
> wine: cannot open (null)
[...]
> Anybody have a hint?
>

<http://www.google.com/search?&q=wine%20cannot%20open%20(null)>

<http://www.winehq.org/site/forums>

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Joost Kremers wrote:

> Keith wrote:
>> keith@localhost:/Win/Program Files$ wine spider.exe
>> wine: cannot open (null)
> [...]
>> Anybody have a hint?
>>
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?&q=wine%20cannot%20open%20(null)>
>
> <http://www.winehq.org/site/forums>
>

I run a version of wine that I have compiled from source and I do not have
noticed such problems. Be aware that there are problems with many
precompiled packages (I have not test the linuxpackages though).

Where are your fake C: drive? To work well; you should have a .wine in your
home directory and have a drive somewhere in it. Although wine itself can
be installed system wide; such a thing is not possible with the windows
apps installed via wine. Each user must have a complete different C: drive
with their own config (more precisely every user must have all permissions
on the C: drive they use). The reason is that wine emulate win98; where
every user has such permission. I have seen some distro shipping wine
trying to do otherwise but it is always broken in some way.

Hope that this help,

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Olive