I am trying to load new brushes in "krita" but all I get is a dialogue box saying "extraction not preformed you don't have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder "krita". I tried to edit them by going to properties but all dialogue boxes are greyed out, Help.I am running 14.04 on an HP 64 bit.norm
1 Answer
Try to run
sudo nautilus
In a terminal. This will launch nautilus (your file explorer) as root and then you should be able to change the permissions as you want but be careful!
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1I'm not sure if just changing the permissions, without investigating what they're supposed to be first, is the best way to proceed. But if this method is to be used, it is preferable to run
gksudo nautilus
or (if thegksu
package that provides thegksudo
command is not installed),sudo -H nautilus
orsudo -i nautilus
. See Why user should never use normal sudo to start graphical application? Oct 9, 2014 at 16:59 -
Yes are right about investigating the permissions the file is supposed to be, the problem is probably somewhere else but sometimes a quick solution is wanted. I wasn't aware of the problems of the use of
sudo
to start a graphical application thank you.– RomainOct 10, 2014 at 0:25