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Shadowmeph

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From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

How do I delete a folder that need su

I need to delete or rename a folder called pb (it has files in it)  that is located in the /usr/local/games/enemy-territory/
when I was using Ubuntu I would just open the folder using nautilus and try and delete it but Arch is different so I don't know how to delete or rename a folder

Zerathidune

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Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

Re: How do I delete a folder that need su

from the command line:

#delete
rm -rf pb
# rename
mv pb newname

I don't know what DE/WM you're using, so I can't be sure any graphical advice I give you will be of any help, but the above should work.

I know in kde you can run a graphical app as root with kdesu, so to open the file manager (konqueror) you could run the command:

kdesu konqueror

don't know how it works in too many other environments.

Shadowmeph

Member

From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

Re: How do I delete a folder that need su

hmm I am using xfce4 but what you gave me worked thank you

Last edited by Shadowmeph (2008-05-29 02:20:44)

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: How do I delete a folder that need su

hmm I am using xfce4

You may run thunar with root permissions (BE CAREFUL.)

sudo thunar

You can also install gksu

pacman -S gksu

And then

gksu thunar

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