Root?

[absentcrisis]

How do I give my user account all the permissions as a root user so i can run exe files via wine?

[oldfred]

I do not think you need to be root to run programs. I just copied picassa.exe to my programs folder and ran it.

fred@fred-LucidDT:~$ cd /home/fred/.wine/drive_c
fred@fred-LucidDT:~/.wine/drive_c$ ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 5 fred fred 4096 2010-06-21 14:20 Program Files
drwxr-xr-x 4 fred fred 4096 2010-06-21 14:19 users
drwxr-xr-x 12 fred fred 4096 2010-10-27 16:14 windows
fred@fred-LucidDT:~/.wine/drive_c$ cd 'Program Files'
fred@fred-LucidDT:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files$ ls -l
total 12112
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred fred 4096 2010-08-31 17:07 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x 4 fred fred 4096 2010-06-21 14:20 Google
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred fred 4096 2010-06-21 14:19 Internet Explorer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fred fred 12387832 2010-06-21 14:09 picasa36-setup.exe
fred@fred-LucidDT:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files$

[gobbles414]

There is a better solution to your Wine problem than destroying your computer's security by trying to grant root permissions to your user account!

Follow the instructions on the http://www.winehq.org/download/deb webpage. Essentially, you need to tell Ubuntu to obtain Wine packages from WineHQ instead of Ubuntu's repositories. The reason for this is that Ubuntu's developers recently added a "feature" to Ubuntu which makes it difficult to use Wine.

Please post your progress to this thread. If my idea doesn't help, there are some other solutions to explore.

PS: Please consider more detailed titles for your posts. "Root to run exe files in Wine" would have been better. Thanks.

[Rubi1200]

You could also start by reading the FAQ:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

[gandaran]

How do I give my user account all the permissions as a root user so i can run exe files via wine?

all you have to do is right click the .exe file, from the drop down menu choose properties » permissions and tick the allow execute file box then you will be able to run/install the .exe file

[gobbles414]

Not necessarily true, gandaran... For example, your solution isn't an option for an executable which is on a CD-ROM. The best way I've found to deal with the "executable bit" and other Wine issues in recent releases of Ubuntu is to use packages from the official Wine repository.