How do you add text to /etc/apt/sources.list

[Okay123]

Hello. I know i am asking so many questions, but i am lost.
How do you add more text to /etc/apt/sources.list? Because then i add, and tries to save, it just says that it can't save it.

[dylunio]

You have to edit it as root.

if your in the command line you can

su
[rootpass]
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

you can replace nano with your favorite text editor

[Okay123]

Then i try with KWrite, it says:
"xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
xlib: No protocol specified

kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0"

And it does the same trick with KEdit and Kate.

Now what should i do?

[dylunio]

You should learn to use command line text editors

try nano, it's easy to use and you save with Ctrl+O (that's a O not a zero) and exit with Ctrl+X.

If you don't have nano installed you might want to get it via apt-get

apt-get install nano

If you can't use apt-get use vi editor. Once you have opened the file press i to enter editing mode. Then once you have edited the file press Esc to get to the command mode and type :w! and then :q.

[Okay123]

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...org/index.html

This is what i am trying to do. But i have to add a '~' in the sources.list file too, because there is that symbol in the homepage, but i really don't know how you do that. I can't copy/paste it. So what should i do?

[Slackitude]

I agree you should learn command line editors, a working knowledge can save your tail sometimes. But having said that, it sounds like you're in KDE. If you are and if you click on the K-menu and look at your programs you should find under "system" than under "more applications" file manager in super user mode. It may be in some other place but hopefully that's where it's hiding. It'll ask for your root password when you brig it up and than you'll be working as root and able to edit files. Just don't forget you're root. The other problem, with the command line not wanting to bring up k-write, I've had before and googled and found a working fix but it only happened once and I don't remember what the fix was. I do know a little googling will fix it though.

[Okay123]

I tried writing the exact same thing, as it said i should in that link, but the link aint working through apt-get. What should i do?

[Okay123]

Please help me.

[dylunio]

CRan you post the error you get as well as your /etc/apt/sources.list please?

[Okay123]

Oh yes, i forgot that before

"mig@D40AB641:~$ su
Password:
D40AB641:/home/mig# apt-cache search fglrx
fglrx-control-qt3 - Control panel for the ATI graphics accelerators
fglrx-driver - Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators
fglrx-driver-dev - Video driver for the ATI graphics accelerators (devel files)
fglrx-kernel-src - Kernel module source for the ATI graphics accelerators
fglrx-sources - Source code for the ATI graphics accelerators control panel
D40AB641:/home/mig# apt-get install fglrx-driver
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fglrx-driver: Depends: xserver-xorg (>= 6.8.0) but it is not installable
Depends: xserver-xorg (< 6.8.99) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
D40AB641:/home/mig# apt-get install fglrx-control-qt3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fglrx-control-qt3: Depends: fglrx-driver but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-9) but 1:3.4.3-13 is to be installed
Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxrender1 (> 1:0.9.0-1) but 0.8.3-7 is to be installed
Depends: libxxf86vm1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
D40AB641:/home/mig# fglrx-driver-src
bash: fglrx-driver-src: command not found
D40AB641:/home/mig# apt-get install fglrx-driver-src
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package fglrx-driver-src
D40AB641:/home/mig# "

Sources.list:
"#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian-fglrx-xorg/ ./"

Can you see any faults there? I dont know what to do. I found another file, "fglrx-driver_8.14.13-1_i386.deb", and then i extract it, there is three other files: "debian-binary", "data.tar.gz", "control.tar.gz" Now, should i try to install that ATI driver instead? And what should i write in the Konsole to install it?