[Wolves] installing WINE and libaudio2

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 07:20 -0700, Steve Wilson wrote:
> > Check which repositories are in use (edit
> > /etc/apt/sources.list) then
> > reload the package list with "sudo apt-get update".
> >
> > If it is one of the ol machines from me it would have been
> > installed
> > with a local mirror of the repositories
> > (192.168.some.thing) instead
> > of gb.archive.ubuntu.com
> 
> AHA ... yes Ron. Thanks! Sadly I can't edit the file as I don't have permission. Nor (it appears) do I have the option of changing file permissions, or even doing a sudo edit on the thing.
> 
> Sorry to ask such a basic question, but if I can't log in as an administrator (no such account appears to exist) then how can I get at this file.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Steve W
> 
sudo is the magic control you need.  However the even more import gksudo
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list will be of more use to you at this point

Failing that goto System>Admin>Software Sources and click on the
defaults there
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