-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:34:36AM +0000, armandobarreiro wrote: > I want to edit the sources for updating packages via apt-get in > Debian. I tried using kwrite. Of course, I was informed "unable to save > changes". > > How can I edit the contents of the "sources.list" file? > > Please bear with my *nix inaptitudes.
Are you familiar with vi? If editing it with vi, you get readonly file, use ! to override or something like that, and can save it with w!. However, if you're not familiar with vi that could be dangerous. Also, you will need to be root or have root privilege to edit sources.list. If you were logged on as normal user, do an su in a terminal window, then, in that same window try kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list Or hope that ed is on this list as he's the Debian Meister and gives you a better answer. :) - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Oh, look at my poor neck... all bare and tender and exposed. All that blood, just pumping away. Giles: Oh, please. Spike: Giles, make her stop! Giles: If those two don't kill each other, I might lend a hand. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDCJIk+lTVdes0Z9YRAq39AJ0dnN+twNgOVta4lkfKFQ3nyHKRgwCgtTT4 luRkxZE7gfUzDKRBjRBigIw= =mtzx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hlo3jva/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124642380/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
