Fedora 9 cannot empty trash.

[viperskunk]

Hi,
This might be an oft-repeated question.
I am using F9 Gnome desktop.
I am unable to empty my trash. I get the message, something like I do not have the permission to delete the folder.
I looked around on google and also this forum. I also tried the "rm -rf" method, but the trash refuses to empty.
Since it has not been long since I shifted to F9 from Ubuntu, I still do not know how a lot of things work.
For, example in Ubuntu, I could delete the files in nautilus mode. But I do not even know the Fedora equivalent of "gksudo nautilus" command.
Is there some way to delete the trash? How does the trash work in Fedora?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

[viperskunk]

Anyone replying?

[marcrblevins]

Try KDE and see if Trash gets empty.

[nicodim]

The deleted files in Gnome are located in

/home/you-user-name/.local/share/Trash/files

Open a terminal as root, go there, do a chown on the files and then rm.

[Dangermouse]

su
rm -fr /home/$(logname)/.local/share/Trash/files

[kurtdriver]

sudo chown -R username /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files

Just change username to yours

You should always use sudo for these things, as it is the safest way.

[JohnVV]

chown -R username:username /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files
 -- or --
chown -R tom:tom /home/tom/.local/share/Trash/files

[chbarg]

Thank you for all the information. It helped me solve my problem.