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Re: [LUG] Permission Not Granted In Ubuntu

 

On Thursday 10 May 2007 16:53, christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Posted by "Berry Christopher" <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Dear Friends,
> This will probably seem low brow to many of you but - When I am working in
> Ubuntu in Terminal the following is happening -- when I apt-get etc etc I
> am asked for the password which I give and all is well until I cp when I am
> told I do not have permission to edit files!!I do not understand this!! How
> do I get round this problem as I am being driven silly! I am trying to
> install my scanner and unless I can pop the Windows file esfw41.bin into
> /etc/sane.d I am done for! Is there a brainbox out there?
> Cheers,
> Christopher Berry.

Use sudo. So  the command would be (from the directory where the file is 
currently)
sudo cp esfw41.bin /etc/sane.d

Mark

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