minky arora wrote: > Hi all, > > Pardon me if this question is not relevant to this list.Any help will > be appreciated. I am quite new to Fink and the Vim editor.I am trying > to change fink.conf and am getting an error 212 on me saying" read > only file cnt be changed". > > Is there a particular setting I need to change in Vim for this? Ive > tried to use Chmod etc but no luck, > > Please Advise > > many thanks >
This is a permissions issue. I don't know how to handle this in Vim, but you could edit the file in nano this way: "sudo nano /path/to/fink.conf" This will open the file in nano (in your terminal) with root permissions and then you can make whatever changes you want. I suggest you back up the file first with "sudo cp fink.conf fink.conf.bak" in case you make a mistake. If you're using vim from the command line, I assume "sudo vim /path/to/fink.conf" will work. ---- Kevin Walzer Phynchronicity: The GUI for Fink http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
