EDITING SOURCES LIST

[Jack Jackson]

are you calling the editor with sudo?  As in,

# sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

?


It's telling you you're not authorized to edit it, which makes me guess 
not, so try doing it with sudo. Hope that helps
jj


Lyndy Joseph wrote:
> Recently I tried editing my sources.list and got the
> following message:
> 
> The document could not be saved, as it was not
> possible to write to file:///etc/apt/sources.list.
> Check that you have write access to this file or that
> enough disk space is available.
> 
> How do I get administrator privileges on my system? I
> am the ONLY user of this machine.
> 
> Please help
> 
> Thanks
> 
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