[Solved] Remove Themes No Longer In ESThemes?

hooperre

Pi Model or other hardware: RPi3B
RetroPie Version Used: 4.2.2
Built From: (Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website)
USB Devices connected: DS4

Attempting to remove the Futura-10px as they were replaced by the video versions in the estheme menu. Attempting to do it manually via SSH or the command line is giving me a permission error.

Using the /etc/emulationstation/themes path since it was downloaded from the Retropie Setup config screen, not the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes path.

Attempted using the chmod -r 777 command to grant permission to delete the folder with no luck. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

backstander

@hooperre
What do you see when you type this (with the correct directory for the theme)?

ls -l /etc/emulationstation/themes/ blah blah blah

You can change the owner to Pi

sudo chown pi:pi /etc/emulationstation/themes/ blah blah blah

Then maybe change the permissions to read/write/execute (777)

chmod 777 /etc/emulationstation/themes/ blah blah blah

TMNTturtlguy

I think you can just use sudo rm -r name of folder

Sorry, on my phone so forgive the formatting

hooperre

@TMNTturtlguy Oh this did the trick. Thanks! Weird. Why did it require sudo in front of rm -r? When I tried it without sudo in front it didn't work.

Sano

@hooperre
Because /etc is a system directory, so regular users like pi can't write (deleting is a kind of writing) inside, you need to be root.
sudo grants you root privileges for the current command, and allows you to remove the files.

hooperre

@Sano Thanks, team!