Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[Francisco Borges]

» On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:42AM -0500, vafa at aol.com.au wrote:

> If I copy (sudo cp -r dirname) a directory to a root directory (where
> TeX is installed), then I can not use it in ubuntu 8.10.  
>
> 
> Any idea how to resolve this problem?

You probably have the ownership of the directory set to root, and now
you can't use it as a regular user.

Check the directory permissions:

ls -la /MyDirectory

to change the ownership of a directory or of files use 

sudo chown -R vafa.vafa /MyDirectory

(the previous command assumes your username is vafa!) 
 
Cheers,
-- 
Francisco Borges