Difficulty installing Wine

[stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net]

Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> 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)
>
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>> 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.
>
>
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>> 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.
>
>   
I believe it is Ignazio.  I have never been able to use that partition 
yet.  Over 200gb of useless space.

Steven