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Software installed in Wine often duplicated   forum
Written by unimatrix the 12 Nov 09 at 18:51. New
Each user has their own ~/.wine folder. On a multi-user system, more than one user might install the same software. It is not a big deal with smaller programs, but some games might be very large and installing those twice or more is a huge waste of space (and time, considering it is often required to do some configuration before it will work).

This can be resolved using symbolic linking, however it is often too complicated for the average user.
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Solution #1: Provide a shared Wine installation
Written by unimatrix the 12 Nov 09 at 18:51.
Perhaps when installing Wine there should be an option whether we want to install it in "shared" or "per-user" mode.
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Solution #2: add the option to install only this or every user
Written by tommis the 20 Nov 09 at 15:35.
When installing windows software on wine there should be an option to install every user or only current user.
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Solution #3: Emulate Windows architecture
Written by GamePad64 the 29 May 10 at 17:47.
Well.. Lots of Windows installers already have a "per-user" and "shared" mode.

In "Per-user" mode application often installs to \Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local.

In "shared" it installs to \Program Files.

So, some commands:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/wine/programs
cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files"
sudo mv * /opt/wine/programs
cd ..
rm "Program Files"
ln -s /opt/wine/programs "Program Files"

Run for all users.

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