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Re: Unable to delete file



On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade to the unstable release and have hit a major snag.
> 
> Doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with the following message:
> 
> Unable to update link /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright :
> Operation not permitted
> 
> I've tried to delete/chmod/chown it as root to no avail; I still get the 
> 'Operation not permitted'.
> 
> It's a freakin' copyright file!
> 
> How is that possible?
> 
> I thought running fsck would help, but it didn't.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm completely stuck now and I've never seen anything like 
> this before.
> 
> Kelly
> 
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	Hiya Kelly,

	Have you tried the commands lsattr and chattr? Maybe those will
help. Not sure.


	Good Luck,

	Jim Richards

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