I am unable to remove files that I installed using Go packages.

sunsetplaty

I wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for your hosting services.

I had installed several Go packages, which have turned out to consume a significant amount of disk space. Consequently, I've made the decision to remove them in order to free up valuable resources.

However, the files have a permission setting of -r--r--r--, which prevents me from deleting them. Even after attempting to adjust permissions, I have been unsuccessful in removing the files.

Could you please provide guidance on how I can proceed with resolving this?

Thank you very much for your support.

admin

Use rm -f file or rm -rf directory from SSH to force remove the files.

sunsetplaty

Thank you, but I can't delete with above methods.

I can delete my files using the -f flag. However, as I mentioned earlier, files that are installed by the Golang package installer cannot be deleted by me.

My logs here.
Any other ways?
Thank you.

[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ ls -al
total 77
dr-xr-xr-x 2 account_name 1000 6 Aug 19 00:54 .
dr-xr-xr-x 35 account_name 1000 44 Aug 19 00:54 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 account_name 1000 418 Aug 19 00:54 example_test.go
-r--r--r-- 1 account_name 1000 3307 Aug 19 00:54 md4_test.go
-r--r--r-- 1 account_name 1000 2341 Aug 19 00:54 md4.go
-r--r--r-- 1 account_name 1000 2074 Aug 19 00:54 md4block.go

[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ rm example_test.go
override r--r--r-- account_name/1000 uarch for example_test.go? y
rm: example_test.go: Permission denied
[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ rm -f example_test.go
rm: example_test.go: Permission denied
[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ chmod 777 example_test.go
[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ rm example_test.go
rm: example_test.go: Permission denied
[account_name@s0]:<~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4>$ rm -f example_test.go
rm: example_test.go: Permission denied

admin

sunsetplaty you need to have a write permission for directory ~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4, try first: chmod 755 ~/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/crypto@v0.12.0/md4 and then you should be able to remove files in that directory.

sunsetplaty

Thanks for the advice! I changed the permissions as you suggested, and it worked perfectly. I didn't know the directory needed write permissions too to delete its files. Thanks again!