Hi Alexey,
Live & learn. I did not know nothing about nano... now I at least know
that it was residing in my cpu... Thanks. I'll check it out.
& do not ask me how... but I now have wxMaxima v. 0.7.6 installed, along
with wxWidgets (also, do not ask me what the heck this program does...
they make clear that there is no promise that it does anything! :) ).
Hey, guess what, wxmaxima v. 0.7.6 looks just like v. 0.7.1, jokes on
me, I guess. But more seriously, probably has some bugs routed elsewhere
(hopefully).
Any way, thanks again for your very kind help, hopefully my rather ad
hoc install will stand the test of time & some use.
Best regards,
Henry
p.s., I used the gedit command to edit my sources.list.
Alexey Beshenov wrote:
> On Saturday 04 October 2008 04:11:30 Henry W. Peters wrote:
>
>
>> The
>>
>> $ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>> command brings up the called file in the terminal window. My
>> problem now is, that I cannot figure how to edit it & then save it?
>> (yikes, seems like it should be so simple! & probably is :-[ ).
>> There is no save menu option in the terminal window (that I know
>> of...(?)). I did something like this before, only it called up the
>> text editor (I think it was something like gedit... <something,
>> something>), then saved it (this was to configure my modem when I
>> first started using Ubuntu /last year/).
>>
>
> In vim, press 'i' to enter the "insert mode"; add the needed lines,
> return to the "command mode" by <ESC> and type ":w" to save the file.
> ":q" (a shortcut for ":quit") will close vim.
>
> More simple command line editor is nano and you may try it as well.
>
> Or just run `sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list` if you're stick to GUI.
>
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