Copy files to folder I dont own

pkr1979 · November 13, 2020, 3:11pm

Hi,

I need to move some ICC profiles to the folder:
usr/share/color/icc
However, Im not the owner of that folder so how do I do this?

Cheers
Peter

kc1di · November 13, 2020, 3:21pm

It would help to know which distro you using.
You can change the owership with root priviledge. But how to do that will be different depending upon your distro.

Akito · November 13, 2020, 3:24pm

You can try:

sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/share/color/icc

pkr1979 · November 13, 2020, 3:28pm

Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Also, Im hoping that these profiles will be available here (Paper type):

pkr1979 · November 13, 2020, 3:32pm

I tried writing this in terminal:

sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/share/color/icc

But I wrote it wrong somehow… do I write it all at once? Do I write $USER?

Akito · November 13, 2020, 4:00pm

Never type, always copy paste.

pkr1979 · November 13, 2020, 4:09pm

Yeay - thanks

JDHoward · November 20, 2020, 5:07am

The text in the example command line “$USER” is a callout to substitute the value of the environment variable “USER” at that location in the command. The login mechanism put that variable in your shell & user environment for any commands run.