Re: How do you install Wunderlist
Originally Posted by
SecretCode
Hmmm . . .
I've never run into a situation like that before but the first thing I thought when I read that is 'permissions' and wundered if user space applications are supposed to be owned by root or by the user. I did a
(from my home directory) only to discover that all the apps in that directory are, in fact, owned by root. There are also some programs that install to a different directory (such as thunderbird, which installs to your home directory as a hidden file). So, just to check it out, I also did a
(while in my home directory of course). What I saw was that all the apps installed there (and there are a considerable number of them) are owned by me, the user.
This makes me wunder about your wunderlist . Where is it installed and who owns it? Who is supposed to own it? If it is owned by root, is it possible that doing a
Code:
chown uname:groupname
to change the ownership to your uname and groupname would solve your problem?
Be careful with chown. Make sure you use it right if you are going to use it. It can bite you if you don't.
HTH
Last edited by ClientAlive; October 1st, 2011 at 08:55 AM.
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