cant edit software sources in kpackagekit

[mastodon88]

i cant edit my repositories because when i try to "edit software sources" in kpackagekit it will prompt me for my password
and then just wont do anything,
if anyone knows how to fix this bug any help would be appreciated, ive been searching online for help on this but to no avail

anyone else experiencing this?

[Snowhog]

Re: cant edit software sources in kpackagekit

This issue with kdesudo not working correctly after one of the last major updates is already known and reported. It hasn't been fixed yet. This means, that attempting to launch GUI apps that require root privleges doesn't work. But, you can still use a command line editor - vi is what I use - to edit a root owned file. From the console you can type:

sudo vi path/filename

where path is the path to the file to be edited and filename is the file itself. If you are more familiar with another CLI editor, you can launch it the same way.

[mastodon88]

Re: cant edit software sources in kpackagekit

ok thanks dude

[mastodon88]

Re: cant edit software sources in kpackagekit

im new to linux, was curious if you could possibly walk me thru how to add sources using the commandline editor, i want to upgrade to kde4.4,
also could you point me to the right direction where i would ask a question about kwin? it seems whenever i have desktop effects enabled my computer can rarely boot up properly
the effects arent a big deal, but is this a notifier of an even bigger problem?

[dibl]

Re: cant edit software sources in kpackagekit

@mastodon88, you might find nano a little easier for your first command line editor (no offense to the vi gurus). In a Konsole window:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nano

Now you can issue the command

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/newrepo.list

and add a new source repo. For example:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-beta-karmic.list

is one that I added at some point many months ago. That file contains the single line:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu karmic main

The nano editing commands are shown at the bottom of the screen -- you use the Ctrl key plus a letter to "save out" or "exit" or whatever. It's fairly intuitive, for an old-fashioned text editor.