[Sussex] Extracting a .tgz file into usr/share

[Fay Zee]

Hi all. I'm forwarding this question from new EGLUG member Andy, whom
I'm bringing along this evening.

> Hi Fay
>
> I'm having a problem with Ubuntu, I think it's trivial but can't find
> the way round it. If you've got the time... or I could mention it at the
> next meeting.
>
> Basically I don't seem to have permissions for my own file system.
> Result being that I can't extract a .tgz file into usr/share which is
> where I think it needs to live. Neither is it downloading directly into
> there (I guess for the same reason) so I've had to put it on the desktop
> and as I say the extract won't work. I've tried sudo chgrp
> file_system /root (on the basis that when I look at the file system
> properties root seems to own them)   but I suspect file_system is just
> an example and I need something else there. Basically I'd like to open
> up the whole system so I can do anything without needing any
> permissions?
>
> Hope you can help,
> Andy

Fay
East Grinstead Linux User Group