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2011-10-06 , 04:27
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Originally Posted by slai View Post


Why?

I ls -al and see root all over. i try whoami and get "user". i try the mv thing and permission denied. wtf is going on here.
This seems normal. As a normal user you shouldn't be able to write files out to anything in /etc like that. Precede the mv command with a sudo. i.e.:

sudo mv /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/mymoves.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

(You don't need to retype the filename at the end, if the destination is a folder... and to be safe, end the folder name with a / so you can get notified whether it had properly put it into an existing directory or else it'll create a FILE with the name sources.list.d if you don't.)

Again, hope that helps. Seems like common Linuxy stuff, so far.
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