Cant delete file in ubuntu 12.10?

Question

http://i.imgur.com/VXpAl.png
i tried all the terminal commands and it says i cant remove it, the permissions for the tor browser file is by root and i cant change anything or even delete it, i just want to get rid of that file its taking up space i dont need anymore.... help?

Answer 1

Open a terminal, type "gksu nautilus"; enter your password.



This will launch Nautilus as root. You should be able to delete the file now.



Looking at your included picture, it seems you want to remove the package "tor". If this is the case, run "sudo apt-get remove tor"; if there are any leftover dependencies after this operation, you can use the "sudo apt-get autoremove" command to delete them as well.



It's also possible this is a bug, as Ubuntu 12.10 is only at the alpha 3 stage of development, and Nautilus is one of the major applications receiving work this release cycle.

Answer 2

When you have a problem like this boot the Livecd and use it to delete files. use the Software Center or Synaptic and install a program called bleachbit. This program is used to clean the operating system of many different things. That may work, instead of using the LiveCD, but choose the bleachbit that says root.

Answer 3

The command 'sudo rm -r tor-browser' didn't work because you weren't in the folder where tor-browser was.