Running apps as root?

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:20 +0200, Rudi von Staden wrote:
> I know how to get sudo working for me, but how would I go about, say,
> using text editor to change my sources.list? Is there some way to run
> it as root? I'm comfortable with vi, but I'm thinking of people who
> have a catatonic response to the command line.

Synaptic can edit your sources.list for you.

Alternatively... 

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

...seems to do the trick nicely.

D.

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