help editing bashrc

[johnknott]

Please advise as new to ubuntu12. I have installed Gnu radio and need to add an
export PYTHONPATH=/x/y/z to bashrc, I can find file and read but cannot edit as not owner.
How to get root privelage from GUI please.

John 2E0KNJ

[MG&TL]

Please advise as new to ubuntu12. I have installed Gnu radio and need to add an
export PYTHONPATH=/x/y/z to bashrc, I can find file and read but cannot edit as not owner.
How to get root privelage from GUI please.

John 2E0KNJ

Lol, which .bashrc have you found? It should be the one in your own home folder. Press Ctrl-H to see hidden files.

[jerrrys]

"How to get root privelage from GUI please."

Open a terminal and enter:

gksudo nautilus

And welcome to the forums

[Hadaka]

Hi, you have 2 .bashrc files, one in your home directory and one in root.

to see the file in home directory...
[CODE]ls -a .bashrc[CODE]
to edit in your home directory....

gedit .bashrc

to get into your root directory..

sudo -i

to list .bashrc..

ls -a .bashrc

to edit in root directory....

gksudo gedit .bashrc

if this satisfies your question..please mark this as SOLVED

[johnknott]

Hi, you have 2 .bashrc files, one in your home directory and one in root.

to see the file in home directory...
[CODE]ls -a .bashrc[CODE]
to edit in your home directory....

gedit .bashrc

to get into your root directory..

sudo -i

to list .bashrc..

ls -a .bashrc

to edit in root directory....

gksudo gedit .bashrc

if this satisfies your question..please mark this as SOLVED

Thank you SOLVED had to use nano as gedit wanted display setting

[BlinkinCat]

Thank you SOLVED had to use nano as gedit wanted display setting

John if you come back to this thread, you mark "Solved" using the thread tools at the top of page -