"You don't have permission to perform this task" uninstalling

[conadig]

I'm trying to uninstall a 32 bit app that is no longer supported since upgrading to Catalina and get

File Info shows:

Interesting that admin is not listed. I am an admin on this machine. When I view file info of the parent Applications folder, I do see admin listed with read & write.

I appreciate any help.

 

[chscag]

Why bother uninstalling it? It's only 67 bytes and certainly won't do any harm by leaving it. You mention that it's a 32 bit app, what app are you referring to as the image shows a folder?

 

[KALLT]

Finder is not capable of showing the complete permissions. Can you post the permissions on the directory in Terminal with this:ls -lO@ /Applications?

 

[NoBoMac]

Odd that the folder is where it seems to be (/System/Applications [stock Apple apps] vs /Applications [user installed apps]). But it is the read-only portion of the Catalina install, so not surprised about the error message (that's an Apple-only location).

Does not appear to be an app, just an empty-ish folder (guessing some empty sub-folder(s) adding the 67 bytes to the size) that used to hold apps, so no harm in keeping it in place.

 

[conadig]

Why bother uninstalling it? It's only 67 bytes and certainly won't do any harm by leaving it. You mention that it's a 32 bit app, what app are you referring to as the image shows a folder?

Because I'm a bit OCD This is the Brother Control Center app.

Finder is not capable of showing the complete permissions. Can you post the permissions on the directory in Terminal with this:ls -lO@ /Applications?

drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 96 Jan 5 2018 Brother

Seems that folder contains a single file that is symlinked over
ControlCenter.app -> /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter/ControlCenter.app

Odd that the folder is where it seems to be (/System/Applications [stock Apple apps] vs /Applications [user installed apps]). But it is the read-only portion of the Catalina install, so not surprised about the error message (that's an Apple-only location).

I did confirm this folder is in /Applications, not under /System/Applications.

I understand there's no harm leaving there. Again, just OCD. Thanks for the help folks.

 

[bogdanw]

ControlCenter.app -> /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter/ControlCenter.app

/Library/Printers/ is not protected by SIP, you should be able to run in Terminal

sudo rm -rf /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter/ControlCenter.app

If it doesn't work, try from Terminal in Recovery.

 

[conadig]

Gracias @bogdanw . I was able to remove that file from terminal as well as the folder. Thanks all for the help.

 

[NoBoMac]

I did confirm this folder is in /Applications, not under /System/Applications

In case someone else stumbles upon this thread, how did you confirm? If using Finder, will look like everything there. But if you do an "ls" from Terminal, will see the two-worlds at work. If you do a "Get Info" from Finder, as in the screen grab provided in op, you will see the actual location.

% cd /Applications
% ls -1 | grep 'App Store'
% ls -1 | grep 'LibreOffice'
LibreOffice.app
% cd /System/Applications
% ls -1 | grep 'App Store'
App Store.app
% ls -1 | grep 'LibreOffice'
%

Done via a "firmlink": a bi-directional sorta symbolic link for folders.

 % head /usr/share/firmlinks
/AppleInternal    AppleInternal
/Applications    Applications
/Library    Library

 

[conadig]

@NoBoMac thank you for clarifying. I learned something today The folder is gone now, so I can't confirm.