chmod? NEVER! install sudo and run either sudo vi /etc/apt/source.list or sudo kate /etc/apt/source.list The best is the first one, of course. ;-) To setup sudo: apt-get install sudo su - vi/joe/emacs /etc/sudoers and add an entry with your username, for example george ALL=(ALL) ALL This way you can execute commands as root by just prepending sudo. It will ask for you password and remember it for a while, so you don't have to enter it every time. sudo will forget the password after about 5 minutes of inactivity. Regards, Ionut On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:16:15PM +1000, Glenn Meehan wrote: > You could chmod 666 sources.list. But I suspect that the default > permissions are set to 644 for a good reason, so you probably ought not > go tampering with them. > > -- > Glenn Meehan <glenn.meehan@optusnet.com.au> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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