Jfreekao wrote: > Well, I was using Wine to run the installer, which never ran, so WB was never installed. I uninstalled Wine from synaptic, but there's something I have to clear first... It's just Wine that's messed up. I was using the feedback from using ePSXe as an example. Wine does that every time I run somethin. > Start a terminal session. It should open to your user home directory, usually /home/<user name> or something similar Type in: ls -a This will list what is in your home directory. If the directory .wine is there type in ls -al | grep .wine This will list the attributes, owner and group of the .wine directory and any directory starting with .wine. On my system, which is a Mac, the listing looks like the following and should look like what you get in any *nix: drwxr-xr-x 9 jamesmckenzie jamesmckenzie 306 2009-06-05 19:34 .wine The first name is the owner, the second the group. I have read (r), write (w) and execute (x) privileges to the directory. In your case, root may own the directory, which may be the cause of your problems. To resolve this problem you will either have to su to root or use the sudo command (if you are permitted to run it as the particular user). I use the sudo command as it is a little (but not much) safer than using the su (superuser) command. To remove the 'stuck' directory: sudo rm -rf .wine When prompted, type in your password (or the sudo command password if you set up your system [this is highly unusual] for this function in that manner) Once the directory is removed, type in the following to create a new .wine directory and to confirm that Wine will function on your system: wine notepad This creates the directory structure and should start the notepad program. You can confirm that the program functions correctly by creating a new file and then saving it. To install your 'new' program, change directories to where the program resides and then type in wine <program_name.exe> where program_name.exe is the name of the installation program and without the < and > James McKenzie The directory should be 'owned' by the Go to your user home directory and issue the following command
