Insufficient permissions to write to usr folder

[Kieran]

I am trying to move a folder to the usr/share folder on an install of Ubuntu 7.04 and i am coming up with insufficient permissions errors, even when attempting to perform the action as a superuser.

[robgolding63]

even when attempting to perform the action as a superuser.

Are you sure you are performing the action as root? On a unix system, root should have full access to every folder, everywhere on the system. Thats the point of a superuser!

Use

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su

to switch to root, and input the password when asked. Then all command run will be run as root, such as, for example:

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mv \source\folder\*.* \usr\dest\*.*

Hope it helps!

Rob