Ok, I've stuffed it up !!

I've just downloaded Wine-20050111-i486-S10.tgz from http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ackage_id=6301 and saved it to the /tmp directory. Then according to http://www.winehq.org/site/howto I entered tar zxvf Wine*.gz and hit enter. The first time I performed this I was logged in as a user and saw a number of permission denied messages so I ctrl+c then went to super user and the tar command again and this time it worked without any errors.

The problem is now when I log in as a user into KDE I receive the following error that returns me to the login prompt:
"The following installation problem was detected whilst trying to start KDE"
"Writing to the temp directory (/tmp) failed with the error 'Permission Denied'
"KDE is unable to start"

If I login a root i am not presented with the error. What I'd now like to do is remove Wine and get rid of this error so that the user may login again.

Help ?

Thanks

Murphy

you probably changed the permissions of the tmp directory when you installed wine. just type chmod 777 /tmp and it should work again

not a reply to your first question, but the package you downloaded looks like a precompiled binary package (that you install with installpkg) and not a source tarball that you would build. Also, if you want to use a temp directory, its far safer to make one in you home directory ( just something like "mkdir tmp") then do all of your work from there instead of using the systems /tmp.

Thanks for the quick solution, really appreciate it !

One one system /tmp is drwxrwxrwt

Whereas after chmod the fauly dir is now drwxrwxrwx

What does the t represent and doesit matter that chmod 777 doesn't set the "t" in the permissions ?

Any idea of how I remove this Wine program as the install was not clean ?

Thanks

Murphy