| Chris |
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| Wed Apr 02 2008 04:46 PM |
Linux question
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Hi, does anyone on these forums (fora?) use Linux - the Ubuntu version? If so, could you tell me how to edit the file 'google.xml' so that all instances of www.google.com are changed to www.google.co.uk?
I have located the file in "usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/ and have tried to edit it but when I go to save it it says that I cannot because I have not got permissions. Right-clicking on the file and selecting "Properties" produces a list of properties that could be changed and a terse little message that says that I am not the owner of the file, which belongs to 'root' and I can't change the properties.
There must, surely, be a way to do this? I want to change 'google.xml' because when I am in France, Google always logs onto a French version and I would prefer it to be in English.
Can anyone help, please?
Many thanks
| BurrWalnut |
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| Wed Apr 02 2008 08:07 PM |
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Re: Linux question
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I’m a bit out of touch with Ubuntu but from memory, you go to the terminal, type SUDO GEDIT {location of google.xml} and press Enter.
Then replace A with B. I don’t know the key combinations for replace (perhaps F5) or look for each entry and retype it.
| Chris |
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| Thu Apr 03 2008 02:20 PM |
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Re: Linux question
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Thanks BurrWalnut it worked fine.
I am just "investigating" Ubuntu to see why so many people rave about it. It seems to have a steep "learning curve" though so I don't know if I will have the patience to persevere with it. Good for the old grey matter, I suppose
| BurrWalnut |
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| Thu Apr 03 2008 03:36 PM |
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Re: Linux question
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I think that the GUI has improved since I used it. Strange that I remembered the Supervisor Do (SUDO) command, probably because it has the ‘clout’ that Windows administrator/permissions/ownership has.