hp all in one dection

[Charles Yao]

On 9/2/05, Larry Grover <lgrover at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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I did just that but the it says "operation not permitted"

Charles
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