hp all in one dection

[Larry Grover]

Charles Yao wrote:
> On 9/2/05, Larry Grover <lgrover at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> 
>>Charles Yao wrote:
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>>>I cant seem to delete the hpijs folder even if it is empty. Could this 
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>>be
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>>>because of the ./configure --prefix=/usr command i did? If it is how can 
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>>i
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>>>undo it?
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>>>
>>>This is the thing that comes out:
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>>>"/home/ccyao/.T.../apollo21xx.Po" cannot be deleted because you do not 
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>>have
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>>>permissions to modify its parent folder.
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>>>I already emptied the folder but it still persists.
>>>
>>>Charles
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>>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:
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>>chown -R ccyao:ccyao /home/ccyao/hpijs-2.1.4/
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>>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


I can't tell what you mean by "just did that".

Please indicate specifically what you were trying to do that led to 
the "operation not permitted" message.

Regards,
Larry