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tat was sooo simple... my problem was tat i tried to state my proxy AFTER tat semi-colon... :P
btw, i am now taking the effort to learn how i may install programs WITHOUT using RPMs, OR to create my own RPMs like what Thomas Chung from FedoraNews taught... (yupp, managed to create working copies of firefox 1.0 and thunderbird for FC1)... so wish me success!
i am using ubuntu 11.04 and i am new to linux.. now i have changed my user type from custom to administrator...
and i want to access apt.conf to add proxy informtion. which i cant not.. it is a readonly file.. how can i change it back.
is there any difference between administrator and root.. because the file says it as read and write permission to root.
Yes, there are differences between root and administrator. I don't know which, but being an administrator is not the same as being root. if you want to edit that file you have to do it as root with
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