[LinuxUsers] Firefox

[Jason Cotton]

totaltech at totaltech-laptop:~$ sudo echo ‘deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >>
/etc/apt/sources.list
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied
totaltech at totaltech-laptop:~$


On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:

> can you paste the error?
> is it this error?
> :~$ apt-get install cmatrix
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission
> denied)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
> root?
>
> Chris...
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Jason Cotton <cottonjmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm still gives permission error, I'll do some more reading
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jason Cotton <cottonjmc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> thanks chris
> >>
> >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Chris Louden <chris at chrislouden.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Put sudo in front of echo
> >>>
> >>> -Chris
> >>> On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Jason Cotton <cottonjmc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm missing something very obvious I know but I'm trying to install
> >>> Firefox 3.5 on my acer, I've done a few how to searches and all of them
> are
> >>> telling me to write the below string in terminal, but when I do I get a
> >>> permission denied response.
> >>>
> >>> I know I can just download it through FTP or direct through their
> webpage
> >>> but I want to learn terminal more.
> >>>
> >>> echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntujaunty
> >>> main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list
> >>>
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