Installing software from CD - permission errors

[ozymandius-2]

I'm new to Linux and Wine, experimenting with a machine before taking the full plunge.

I have Wine installed and have managed to install one game. The game that I REALLY want to install gives me a permission error. I'm not sure if the error is being generated by the software installer, Wine, or Linux. When I double click on the installerI get a pop-up window that says "You don't have permission to install games from BigFish games on this computer.  Please log in with an administrator account and try again".   Game is a "hidden object" game, requirements are XP/Vista, 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, DirectX 7, 167 MB HD space. I have Wine set for XP and to emulate a virtual desktop. I've tried with and without desktop emulation.

I'm running ubuntu based Mint 7 (Gloria).  It has been suggested that running executables from the CD-ROM is locked out, and can't be changed. That makes no sense to me whatsoever, since all software on CD is installed from the CD drive.  I tried copying the CD to a folder on the HD, but that gives the same results.

Suggestions?

Computer is an Athlon 64 1200+, 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD, Radeon 9600 256 MB video card.

[ozymandius-2]

Hmmm.... can't edit posts.  I did search the forum, didn't find anything....

[ozymandius-2]

farna wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and Wine, experimenting with a machine before taking the full plunge.
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> I have Wine installed and have managed to install one game. The game that I REALLY want to install gives me a permission error. I'm not sure if the error is being generated by the software installer, Wine, or Linux. When I double click on the installerI get a pop-up window that says "You don't have permission to install games from BigFish games on this computer.  Please log in with an administrator account and try again".  
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Known bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755

According to the bug report, this is already fixed in git. You can either compile yourself, or wait for the next development release.

[ozymandius-2]

farna wrote:
> Hmmm.... can't edit posts.  I did search the forum, didn't find anything....

The top-most post mentions editing is disabled...

[ozymandius-2]

Thanks! Is the mentioned patch in the bugzilla trace not available without compiling the whole mess?

[ozymandius-2]

farna wrote:
> Thanks! Is the mentioned patch in the bugzilla trace not available without compiling the whole mess?

No, as that bug showed up again with the next patch to fix another problem...

[ozymandius-2]

Okay, thanks. So if I d/l the source and compile it though, it should work.  I might find time to do that sometime in the next two weeks.

[ozymandius-2]

..I updated my win e to 1.1.33 and I'm still getting permission errors when I try to run files from some .iso files... any suggestions?

[ozymandius-2]

Art4Love wrote:
> ..I updated my win e to 1.1.33 and I'm still getting permission errors when I try to run files from some .iso files... any suggestions?

What permission errors? What exactly does it say?