On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c > touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permission denied > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ ls -l !$ > ls -l dvd_reader.c > -rw-rw-r-- 1 6581 30099 26332 May 19 2002 dvd_reader.c
Sounds like you extracted the source package as root. Don't do that; you don't need to. > $ chown moseley ~/libdvdread2-0.9.3 > chown: changing ownership of `/home/moseley/libdvdread2-0.9.3': Operation > not permitted > > Did I miss a step in downloading the source package? Having extracted the source package as root, you'll now need to be root to fix it. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
