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    App has file access issues - Kubuntu peculiarity, or other?

    Last night I installed the excellent Xnview graphics viewing & editing program, version 1.70, for my Kubuntu 8.10 install.

    The problem is, it can't see any folders beyond the /root folder. I can't find any way to go farther back up the directory structure so that, for instance, I could access pictures on my Windows NTFS partitions, or over the local network.

    I don't recall having this problem when I put Xnview on another machine running Kubuntu 8.04.1. So, I'm thinking that rather than being an application-specific problem, I must have installed it wrong or something.

    FWIW, here's what happened when I ran the installer shell script in Konsole:
    Code:
    objekt@objekt-desktop-K810:~/bin/XnView$ sudo ./installXNV
     OS : Linux, version 2.6.27-7-generic
    This script will install nview/nconvert/xnview in the /usr/local/bin directory
    cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XnView': No such fileor directory
    chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XnView': No such file or directory
    
    Done!
    objekt@objekt-desktop-K810:~/bin/XnView$
    (I installed it from a /bin folder I created in my /home directory, at the suggestion of another poster here. Perhaps the problem is that this folder is not in my "path" yet? But I thought "sudo" was supposed to overcome that sort of problem.)
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