Permission denied

["David H. Clymer" <david@nittanylink.com>]

I cannot uninstall/reinstall, do anything with the kdebase-doc package
because of a problem with several files, which even as root, i do not 
have permission to list/delete/modify. How is this so? Is there any way
I can unlink these files?

example below:

woody:/usr/share/doc/kde# rm -rf HTML
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/klipper/screenshot.png': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/klipper/common': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/klipper/index.cache.bz2': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/klipper/index.docbook': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en/klipper': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/khelpcenter/visualdict/pict20.png':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/khelpcenter/visualdict/pict2.png': Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/khelpcenter/visualdict/pict3.png': Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/khelpcenter/visualdict/pict16.png':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en/khelpcenter/visualdict': Directory
not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en/khelpcenter': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kmenuedit/i_k_button.png': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kmenuedit/i_copy.png': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kmenuedit/i_cut.png': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kmenuedit/i_delete.png': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en/kmenuedit': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kicker/common': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `HTML/en/kicker/index.cache.bz2': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en/kicker': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML/en': Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove directory `HTML': Directory not empty

any enlightenment provided will be greatly appreciated.

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-david