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    blackangelpr
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    greetings after commiting a mistake of installing the old qt from the ubuntu software center i unistalled and downloaded the latest one from the website but now i get this erorr message:

    cannot overwrite file /home/usrname/./config/QtProject/qtcreator/qtversion.xml: Permission denied

    any idea guys?

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      sierdzio
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      When are you getting this stuff?

      A simple chmod or chown should do the trick:
      @
      sudo chown -R username /home/usrname/./config/QtProject/
      @

      (Z(:^

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        blackangelpr
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        Yes thanks for the advice but i was so worry that got help on the IRC channel lucky me the problem was fixed with

        sudo chown -Rv blackangel:blackangel ~/.config/QtProject/ && chmod -Rv 0700 ~/.config/QtProject/

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          Satyamer14i
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          Thank-you soo much. I was facing the same problem But your way helped me do it within no minutes Tysm

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