[luau] Basic help

[Joe Linux]

try typing "kdesu konqueror" in a terminal and then try to get rid of 
the stuff using the GUI file manager that will come out in root mode.

Alvin Murphy wrote:

> I am a little embarrassed to show my ignorance, but here goes. In the 
> midst of trying to recover from a mess of my Mandrake 8.1 because of 
> problems installing and uninstalling Win4Lin, I ran out of room on 
> /home/alvin. I was able to move some files to "trash" but some would 
> not, for instance the huge file "install" created by OpenOffice. 
> Nautilus tells me I cannot move or delete the directory because it 
> does not belong to me, it belongs to root. I went to a terminal and 
> changed to supervisor-root, but that made no difference. I wrote 
> "chmod a+rwx /home/alvin/install" but that made no difference. Can 
> anyone tell me what I need to do? Also some files that I was able to 
> move to trash, same problem in that I cannot empty trash because I am 
> not owner. I also do not know where "trash" is so cannot reach it from 
> terminal. Thanks.
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