I installed a recent version of Wine from linux packages (slack 10.0)
and it works as root.

When I try it as a regular user I get cannot open (null) Here's an
example:
keith@localhost:/Win/Program Files$ wine spider.exe
wine: cannot open (null)

I looked through the package and couldn't find any obvious place where
the permissions are preventing a general user from running wine
applications.

Anybody have a hint?