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.
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