EDITING SOURCES LIST

R.L. Reingard reingard at hispeed.ch
Wed Sep 21 18:09:29 UTC 2005


administrator privileges you get in the terminal by the command 'sudo' and  
using your user password to access. run:

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

to make changes in that file.

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> Am 21.09.2005, 19:40 Uhr, schrieb Lyndy Joseph <lyndyjoseph at yahoo.co.uk>:

> 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.




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