Richard A. Franklin wrote: > > The last link you included gives this instruction: > > > "add the KDEDIR environment variable, you need to edit your /etc/profile > ( or ~/.bash_profile ) and add the line: > > > export KDEDIR="/usr" > > > ...where /usr is your KDE's base directory. > > > Now, change the present working directory to the location where you > unarchived Knights and type the following: > > % ./configure > % make > % make install" > > This sounds easy enough, but I have no experience with editing (I am a > candidate for Jason's Communiversity class). > > Any advice on a newbie-friendly tutorial on the subject? > > Rick > > > You can edit the file w/ kwrite from w/in KDE. Did you get your permissions problem fixed? you may need to login as root to get some of this accomplished or use sudo or su from the cmdline. -- ---------------------------------------------- Somewhere there is a village missing an idiot.