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How do I delete software I installed says it is root only

Asked by Lynne Stevens

I am running 14.04 and have a 3 D printer which i now need to remove the software folders are marked root need to delete via root . .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Run:

sudo nautilus

You can delete whatever you like.

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#2

300E4C-300E5C-300E7C:/home/lynne# sudo nautilus Arduino

(nautilus:8648): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(nautilus:8648): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 96 was not found when attempting to remove it

(nautilus:8648): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 97 was not found when attempting to remove it

(nautilus:8648): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 98 was not found when attempting to remove it
root@lynne-300E4C-300E5C-300E7C:/home/lynne#

Something did not work ! . . Trying to delete the folder Arduino has a lot of crap in it and it is locked has a lock on it says ROOT
is the only one can do anything to it I seem to recall a Chmod thing way back a few hundred years ago something like
sudo chmod 755 ( folder name ) or something like that

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

You could try using the terminal command

sudo rm -rf Arduino

(if required, replace Arduino with the full file name of the directory that you want to remove).
Use extreme care with that kind of commands; mistyping the directory name might render your system unusable.

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#4

Thank you it worked ! Arduino folder is gone ! . . Maybe things might work again since that file and folder is gone . . I was going to totally do a re do of the Hard drive today to get rid of that program . . It blocked the port of /dev/ttyUSB0 from any other program

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#5

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.