wine is not owned by you , err msg

**ronio** · February 19th, 2008

I installed the latest WINE via the package manager.
I have a Windows game installed.
I placed it at /usr/share/apps/EASports/

However, when I try to execute the game, I get the following message:

wine: /home/ron/.wine is not owned by you

i searched the forum, however, i must be the only loser that can't even get wine to fire up

**Ferrat** · February 19th, 2008

sounds like you started up wine with a sudo, this makes the .wine folder a root owned folder = no good

open a terminal
type in

Code:

sudo nautilus

got to /home/ron

press Ctrl + H (this will show hidden files and folders)

find the folder .wine

remove it

close down the filebrowser

in the terminal now type

Code:

winecfg

only that, nothing else and the wine cfg should start after building you a new .wine dir

**Sukarn** · February 19th, 2008

You could do the above, or you could type this in the terminal -

Code:

sudo chown -R ron:ron ~/.wine

The above command will change the ownership of the .wine folder to the user "ron" and group "ron"

**Alex14** · December 24th, 2009

hi, im pretty new to ubuntu and wine and have the same problem with wine telling me that i do not own /home/alexander/.wine.
i tried both ways posted above, but none of them worked. when i tried the sudo chown -R alexander:alexander ~/.wine nothing happend at all. it wrote what i just typed in and that was it. please help me i have used hours on this problem!

**Sathallrin** · December 24th, 2009

@Alex: can you post the output of
ls -al ~ | grep wine
That will show the current permissions of the .wine folder

**Drastic2010** · May 21st, 2010

Kind of an old topic i see, but i am having this issue now too. Here is the output for
ls -al ~ | grep wine

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  4 cjoyner cjoyner    4096 2010-05-21 14:30 .wine
drwxr-xr-x  3 cjoyner cjoyner    4096 2010-05-08 01:17 .winetrickscache

Thanks and hopefully can resolve this issue.

**Sukarn** · May 23rd, 2010

Originally Posted by Drastic2010

Kind of an old topic i see, but i am having this issue now too. Here is the output for
ls -al ~ | grep wine

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  4 cjoyner cjoyner    4096 2010-05-21 14:30 .wine
drwxr-xr-x  3 cjoyner cjoyner    4096 2010-05-08 01:17 .winetrickscache

Thanks and hopefully can resolve this issue.

Hey Drastic2010,

Just to make sure that the permissions are set correctly, I would ask you to run the command I mentioned above once on your own computer.

I am assuming that your username is cjoyner, so, based on that, this is the command you would have to type -

Code:

sudo chown -R cjoyner:cjoyner ~/.wine

Try running it once and then check whether that fixes it for you.

**zelrikriando** · March 30th, 2011

I am having the same issue also, none of the above works, the only way to have access to .wine for me is to do it as su.

**cwwilson721** · March 30th, 2011

Originally Posted by zelrikriando

I am having the same issue also, none of the above works, the only way to have access to .wine for me is to do it as su.

I'll bet that 90% of the above issues were caused by the posters RUNNING WINE AT SOME POINT AS SU.

Don't do it.

Never run wine as the super-user!

You are as vulnerable as a typical Windows user. Security, file permissions, folder permissions, executing files w/root permissions, virus/malware (Yes, wine can run BAD JUJU stuff as SU, and since 99% of users NEVER remove "non-windows" drives in winecfg, that exposes your ENTIRE system to the woes of MS Windows virus/malware. Since you are running as su, EVERY FILE ON YOUR COMPUTER IS AT RISK.)

Don't do it.

EVER

**matuskap** · July 10th, 2011

Well now i have the same problem and it started just after upgrade to 10.10. I guess im going to remove and install it again to avoid any problems... to be honest, there enough pure-wine crap to be fixed while trying to run games without having to deal with this kind of stuff.