Permission denied error while trying to uninstall Anaconda

Question

My computer: Mac Book Pro, OS X Yosemite

I am trying to uninstall anaconda with the following command.

rm -rf ~/anaconda

However I get many many lines of Permission denied that looks like this

rm: /Users/myname/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oauthlib/__init__.py: Permission denied

I would appreciate your suggestions.

Answer 1

On my OS X El Capitan,

sudo rm -rf //anaconda

worked. Note that @AustinKildoff already answered this question above.