Deleting Trash can

[david]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:30, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le lundi 20 décembre 2004 à 05:47 +0100, Philippe Landau a écrit :
> 
> > this bug is almost two years old and well known,
> > but canonical as so often never replied.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could you provide some details on this ? Not replied to what ?
> 
> 
> > it is made worse of course through the habit of
> > ubuntu to keep read-only permissions
> > when you copy folders from a CD or DVD,
> 
> That's not an issue specific to the distribution but due to the upstream
> code probably
> 
> 
> > also the trash is not called trash in ubuntu, but "wastebasket".
> 
> ubuntu doesn't change this setting 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastien Bacher
> 
> 

I have also come across this problem. I compiled and installed the
latest versions of hydrogen and abiword. Once finished I just right
clicked on the source folders and sent them to the Bin. But then of
course the bin won't empty because of file permissions left over from
"make install".
# chmod -R 777 ~/.Trash/name.of.dir

Once this is done the bin empties. 
(Not 100% sure that 777 is the right number for this operation.)

regards

David