googleearth

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Dec 7 14:48:43 UTC 2008


Brian Norman Wootton wrote:

> Thanks Miron,Kassube
> 
> sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME
> 
> in a terminal. I think that will fix it.
> 
> I had already done the above to no effect, but I did it again anyway
> still no good.
> 
> rm -Rf .config/Google
> 
> The above did the trick, the chown -R.... left the Google dir still
> owned by root:root mutter, mutter.

LOL.  Of course it did.  _Normally_, $USER expands to your own user ID - 
but you can't use that under "sudo", because then your ID is "root" :-)
-- 
derek





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