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Submitted by gnarly_buttons on Wed, 2006-11-22 20:13

While working on installing the file I mentioned in the other thread, I managed to mess something else up. I somehow added some extra lines of text to the file /etc/apt/sources.list This makes my adept updater not function properly. When I tried to delete these lines, the computer said I couldn't save the file. Could someone please help me? Thanks, Scott

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Submitted by harv on Thu, 2006-11-23 08:22.

Hi Scott, Hope I'm not stating the obvious here, but you need root privileges to edit sources.list. You can either open "run command" from main menu and type "kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list" sans quotes and click run. Or if you want to try it from a terminal open Konsole under "system" in main menu and type "sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list" again without quotes. Either way will ask for your password and then open the file in an editor with root privileges. HTH harv

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Submitted by gnarly_buttons on Fri, 2006-11-24 20:45.

That worked. I had tried using VIM under sudo, but it didn't work, but this did. Scott