Re: cannot unlink
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:49:55PM +0200, Reine Johansson wrote:
> When I tried purging the package bc the following thing happened;
>
> dpkg: error processing bc (--purge):
> unable to delete control info file `/var/lib/dpkg/info/bc.postinst':
> Operation not permitted
>
> And then I tried to remove the file manually being root;
>
> rm: cannot unlink `bc.postinst': Operation not permitted
>
> Why can't this file be removed?
>
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Try looking at the file with ls -l. You might need to use chmod to
fix the permissions so you can delete the file. (chmod 600 bc.postinst)
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