Editing Files

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#1 February 16, 2008

Hi,

Brand New to Ubuntu, I like the OS so far, fairly new to Linux as well, just working through the learning curve. My question is, I am trying to install Oracle 11G, and am required to edit a file owned by root. Signed in under my normal user account, is there any way to switch to root while in the GUI, in order to open the file and edit it? I can switch to sudo in the terminal, but I would like to edit it in the GUI. Any ideas?

Thanks, Zach

#2 February 16, 2008

Try:

gksudo gedit

Also, some good documetation is on the wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Good luck! Dr Small

#3 February 16, 2008

Dr. Small...

Hey man thanks, that did the trick !