Themes are not installing at WordPress using Localhost not web server

chown: changing ownership of ‘/opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress’: Operation not permitted

and when I tried to run this command then below message shown at all folder and directory

chmod: changing permissions of ‘/opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php’: Operation not permitted

thank you for you reply, but I am sorry to say I am still unable to install themes even I tried commands which you instruct, I am using Xampp at local pc and xampp is install at opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress, so you would you please tell me exact command to make correction for permission

Thank you

Hi @malakwal,

The error “ Installation failed: Could not create directory”. Indicates that you have the wrong permissions or ownership configured for your website.

To fix the permission issue, you can run the following command :

find /path/to/website -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find /path/to/website -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Please remember to change the /path/to/website with your actual DocumentRoot.

To change the ownership of a folder or a file, you can execute the following command

chown -R user:user /path/to/website

You’ll need to change the user:user bit with the actual User you have your Xampp configured with.

Regards, KDSys