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Are you talking about the /etc/hosts file?
If so, then you will need to log in as root (or the equivalent) in order to edit it.
Do ls -l /etc/hosts to see who can write to the file (usually root only)!
Are you asking how to edit a text file in Linux? Have you booted up and logged in already? If so, then you can use any text editor to edit the file and save it. You can usually find the text editors from the menu options or you can enter in a shell command to start an editor from a terminal window such as "vi", "emacs", "pico", "nano", "kate", "gedit", etc. Many of these have documentation on the internet, and some have man pages as well. From a command line in the shell, type "man vi" to read about that editor, or "man nano" to read about that, etc. For opening the file to edit it: "nano <filename>".
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