2008-05-19, 21:12
I fully expect this problem is due to my lack of Linux knowledge, so please bear with me...
I've been successfully building XBMC out of the SVN for several months now and am comfortable with that process. All of those results were in my user directory which I had full access to from the desktop to modify things as needed. Yesterday I used the PPA for the first time and that worked just fine. Until I tried to paste in an existing sources.xml file with all of my config details. The XBMC folder in usr/share/whatever is owned by root and the desktop wouldn't let me paste into it.
I assume that I can terminal/sudo in order to copy things into the PPA-created location. If that's the case, I can look up the commands and keep going. But is this what I should be doing here, or am I missing something obvious? I'm expecting to do this for both sources.xml and any non-SVN skins like Aeon.
Thanks -
Blake
I've been successfully building XBMC out of the SVN for several months now and am comfortable with that process. All of those results were in my user directory which I had full access to from the desktop to modify things as needed. Yesterday I used the PPA for the first time and that worked just fine. Until I tried to paste in an existing sources.xml file with all of my config details. The XBMC folder in usr/share/whatever is owned by root and the desktop wouldn't let me paste into it.
I assume that I can terminal/sudo in order to copy things into the PPA-created location. If that's the case, I can look up the commands and keep going. But is this what I should be doing here, or am I missing something obvious? I'm expecting to do this for both sources.xml and any non-SVN skins like Aeon.
Thanks -
Blake