problem with deleting a directory and subdirectory

Question

root@Umar:/home/umar# rmdir /usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/usr/local/Reliance_Netconnect’: Directory not empty

Answer 1

To delete a directory that is not empty, you need to use rm -rf.

This is basic linux, and so is using sudo instead of a root account; you're setting yourself up for disaster. Be careful.

Answer 2

You must have an empty directory for rmdir to work.

The typical way to recursively delete a directory and all of it's contents is with the rm -r command where the -r is short for recursive.