hp all in one dection

[Larry Grover]

Charles Yao wrote:

> I cant seem to delete the hpijs folder even if it is empty. Could this be 
> because of the ./configure --prefix=/usr command i did? If it is how can i 
> undo it?
> 
> 
> This is the thing that comes out:
> 
> "/home/ccyao/.T.../apollo21xx.Po" cannot be deleted because you do not have 
> permissions to modify its parent folder.
> 
> I already emptied the folder but it still persists.
> 
> Charles


When you ran "sudo make install" you probably created some new files 
within the build directory.  Because you used sudo, these files will 
be owned by root and you will not be able to delete them when you are 
running commands as a normal user (hence the "you do not have 
permissions..." message).

You can revert the ownership of the files by running the "chown" command:

chown -R ccyao:ccyao /home/ccyao/hpijs-2.1.4/

Run "man chown" for details, but the "-R" option tells the chown 
(change ownership) command to recursively step through all the 
subdirectories.  I'm assuming your username is ccyao, since your home 
directory is /home/ccyao.  If I'm wrong, just substitue your true 
username for ccyao.  The "ccyao:ccyao" simply tells chown to assign 
all the files and directories to user ccyao, group ccyao.  The last 
part of the command, /home/ccyao/hpijs-2.1.4/, just tells chown where 
to start working.

Once you've changed ownership of the files and directories to your 
user, you should be able to remove all of them from the command line, 
or from nautilus (or konqueror, or whatever you use as a file browser).

Regards,
Larry