Error when extracting Folder to usr/share/theme
I am trying to extract a theme on linux mint, xfce windows manager.
I get this error when I extract a folder I downloaded, with the theme I donwloaded. You don't have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder "file:///usr/share/themes" Why do I get this error? |
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As a regular user, you should be able to extract the folder into a directory named ~/.themes (i.e. a hidden directory named ".themes" in your home directory) rather than /usr/share/themes (which is usually reserved for themes installed through your package manager, hence why normal users can't write to it).
This howto is for Ubuntu, but it should still work under Mint (which is based on Ubuntu): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ght=xfce+theme |
I have tryed several of those but don't work for some reason, I loggged in as root and got it. One question though, whenever I make a folder, it dissapears or doesnt show up? And is that different from making a directory? How do I make that?
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Try using "ls -al" to see all of the files in a terminal, and you can configure your file browser to show hidden files in the GUI.
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You can check the permissions with ls -al /usr/share/themes You should see all files have owner root and permissions drwxr-xr-x which means they are writeable by root but not by any other user. The top directory also has the same permissions. If you are logged in as a normal user, then you could try launching the extractor utility using sudo sudo whatever-the-program-is Did you see the discussion on Ubuntu forums about this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299070 They could have some useful hints. Fish |
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