Installing PlayOnLinux

To get PlayOnLinux installed on an Ubuntu-based distro like Kali,

you can try installing it using the default repositories by running:

apt-get install playonlinux

To avoid some errors later on, I would also suggest running the following commands
to get the 32-bit version of Wine installed:

apt-get install wine:i386

wine --version
apt-get install wine32

Run PlayOnLinux as root

If you�re running Kali Linux (or any other distro) as root, you�ll run into a
message saying

�PlayOnLinux is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry�. To get around that, you�ll
need to edit two files:

leafpad /usr/share/playonlinux/python/mainwindow.py

When the file opens, you�ll want to look for the following lines and comment them
out by adding a # in front of the line:

if(os.popen("id -u").read() == "0\n" or os.popen("id -u").read() == "0"):

wx.MessageBox(_("{0} is not supposed to be run as root.
Sorry").format(os.environ["APPLICATION_TITLE"]),_("Error"))
os._exit(1)

So that it looks like this:

# if(os.popen(�id -u�).read() == �0\n� or os.popen(�id -u�).read() == �0�):

# wx.MessageBox(_(�{0} is not supposed to be run as root.
Sorry�).format(os.environ[�APPLICATION_TITLE�]),_(�Error�))
# os._exit(0)

leafpad /usr/share/playonlinux/lib/sources

You�ll want to find the 5 lines below and comment them out by adding a # in front
of the line:
if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]
then
echo "PlayOnLinux is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry"
exit
fi

After making the changes above to the files, you should be able to run PlayOnLinux
as root in Kali Linux (or any other Linux distro). If you�ve tried the steps above,
let us know how it worked for you by leaving us a comment below.