ubuntu - Wine: <directory> not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration directory there -

i trying create wineprefix can install il-2 1946 on ubuntu os. m using resource: http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2012/07/making-wineprefixes-and-using-wineprefixes-wine-1-5/

the directory trying create prefix in ~/games/il-2_1946 when enter:

env wineprefix=~/games/il-2_1946/.wine_il-2 winecfg 

i following error:

wine: '/home/promitheas/games/il-2_1946' not owned you, refusing create configuration directory there 

i have searched far , wide few hours now, closest thread found relative issue one: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-634075.html

i have wineprefix star wars old republic, , when run il-2 setup.exe wine error:

wine: chdir /home/promitheas/games/swtor/drive_c/program files/electronic arts/bioware/star wars - old republic/wineprefix 

: no such file or directory

furthermore, game mounted .iso file.

any appreciated. in advance.

i got same error while trying create wineprefix in gentoo x64. did:

$ rm ~username/.wine $ winearch=win32 wineprefix=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg  

attention: not manually create directory before running command; wine must create it. if manually create directory before running message:

$ wine: winearch set win32, '/path/to/wineprefix' 64-bit installation.