Difficulty installing Wine

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 01:23:21 pm Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
>> sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
> Dear Ignazio,
> 
> I have been trying to be a bit less intrusive on the List.  The reason I 
> installed Gedit was because it was in the instruction I sought.  Next, after 
> getting your email about Kedit, I looked to see what editor I currently have 
> installed as default, since I am now in a 64bit system, I thought it might 
> make a difference, but I got Error when I did (it is Kate), so I installed 
> Kedit as recommended.  I still got an Error as follows:

I only mentioned kwrite :S (<scratches head> sfx)

> 
> steven at Yeshua:~$ sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
> Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-steven" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> Error: "/tmp/kde-steven" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
> 

yes I know about that error message, but does kwrite window show up 
anyway or not? (It used to...)

if it doesn't, try kdesudo instead of sudo.


> I don't yet understand uid ownership or how to make it right.  Please help me 
> through the new problem?  Thanks!  By the way, I have a partition that won't 
> allow me to put things in it due to permissions problems, can you help with 
> that too?


:( sorry about that, if it's the same issue you already discussed some 
time ago on the list I didn't have a clue on how to proceed and fix that...

I.