Hi DreadBob and welcome to the Knoppix forums.

Sorry to you ask you questions instead of giving you answers, but it is to avoid answering the wrong question and just confusing you further ...

Which Knoppix version are you using (6.4.3, 6.4.4) and are you using the CD edition or the MAXI edition on DVD ?

What exactly have to typed in and what exactly is the system's reply ? Try using copy/paste to copy the exact text into your reply.

What are you trying to achieve ? Like are you trying to install a (more recent) version of wine you have downloaded from winehq.org ?

Can you tell me if wine is already installed and, if so, which version ? If you're not sure how to do that, try dpkg -l | fgrep wine. I get stuff all with the same version number: 1.0.1-3.1.

That is kind of old. If you haven't deleted the old version yet, then you could use Synaptic to delete it (don't do that just yet) but Synaptic may not be so good at installing a .deb you have downloaded yourself.

If you are following some instructions you found on the web, could you please copy the URL into your reply so Werner, I and others can have a look at them ? Just because they are on the web doesn't mean they are correct.

If you have downloaded a new version of wine, can you let us know the URL you got it from ? (If you typed in a command starting with wget, then copy/paste that line into your reply).

You're a brave man, DreadBob. Good luck.