How do you edit read only files in Ubuntu.

[coolred]

What little info i did find seemed to point to using sudo. How do I do that exactly. It seemed to say to type sudo followed by the program I want to use, in this case gedit I guess. I assume I do this in the Run Application command line?? I tried and nothing happened.


Any more help would be great.

 

[Wyck]

Easiest console way to do it would be: sudo vi filename.conf
To do it from Xwindows open a terminal window and type: sudo gedit
After gedit opens you can open the file from the graphical menu.

 

[coolred]

Thanks, problem one down. Next one just popped up.
I am trying to get the side buttons on my intellimouse explorer to work. I found a walkthrough for it on the ubuntu forums. I got the first step done, next step says to use Synaptic or sudo apt-get install imwheel to install it. But IMwheel is not found through synaptic or the other option. I have even gone out and downloaded the .tar.gz file of it. Now what do I do to install it?

 

[user1234]

you need to enable the Ubuntu Universe repository in Synaptic - Ubuntu web site has instructions how to do that (either by manually editing /etc/apt/sources.list, or checking a box in Synaptic under Settings->Repositories). The "imwheel" package is in that repository and should show up in Synaptic after you enable this repository. Btw, it's not a good idea to install tar.gz packages (especially as a newbie) - you should stick to installing everything using Synaptic or apt-get (in fact Synaptic is just a graphical front end for apt-get). This will make sure you don't mess up your system with conflicting packages and libraries which overwrite each other files. You don't want to get into that mess. That's the beauty of Ubuntu software package repositories - they provide almost every existing package in one central place so you don't have to go hunting for unverfied and untested and possibly conflicting packages all around the internet.