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Ubuntu, Wine and CD-ROMs

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Whose brilliant idea was it to make it impossible to install an application from a CD in the latest version, and does anyone know of a way to change this that doesn't involve being logged in as root?
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I don't know of a way to change it, but I do know of a way around it. Open a terminal, cd to the media/cdrom folder, then enter ' wine "install program" ' where install program is the setup program.
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Good to know, thanks. I assume that also works for other executables?
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yep.
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