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As with every other morning or so I come and visit the howtogeek.com pages and browse around. I was really interested in the Tux Geek: Fix your music article and downloaded the programming and was fiddling around with Picard. After I installed it I removed the file from the desktop folder into the trash. Now I can't delete this folder. I get the following errors:

There was an error deleting lib.linux-i686-2.5. Error removing file: Permission denied

There was an error deleting temp.linux-i686-2.5. Error removing file: Permission denied

How can I force these two file to delete? I've already tried "sudo apt-get remove picard" and removed it and still it won't let me delete.

You can't delete the trash folder, or empty it?

Typically you'd use a command like this to delete something that you didn't normally have permission to delete:

sudo rm -f filename.ext

But you should be careful with that command, don't delete something you shouldn't be.

Hi Trigger,

Try this: log in as root (use su) and type "rm -rf /home/your_username/.Trash/file_to_remove", or more forcefully you can empty the whole trashcan by "rm -rf /home/your_username/.Trash/*".