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I am trying to load new brushes in "krita" but all I get is a dialogue box saying "extraction not preformed you don't have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder "krita". I tried to edit them by going to properties but all dialogue boxes are greyed out, Help.I am running 14.04 on an HP 64 bit.norm

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Try to run

sudo nautilus

In a terminal. This will launch nautilus (your file explorer) as root and then you should be able to change the permissions as you want but be careful!

Romain
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    I'm not sure if just changing the permissions, without investigating what they're supposed to be first, is the best way to proceed. But if this method is to be used, it is preferable to run gksudo nautilus or (if the gksu package that provides the gksudo command is not installed), sudo -H nautilus or sudo -i nautilus. See Why user should never use normal sudo to start graphical application? – Eliah Kagan Oct 09 '14 at 16:59
  • Yes are right about investigating the permissions the file is supposed to be, the problem is probably somewhere else but sometimes a quick solution is wanted. I wasn't aware of the problems of the use of sudo to start a graphical application thank you. – Romain Oct 10 '14 at 00:25