How to edit /etc/apt/sources.list using putty in a VPS setup

Question

I'm having trouble doing this. How do I edit it? Basically, the VPS is using 11.04 which is, end of life and I'm trying to upgrade to the latest long term release, but I am following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades/Oneiric

How would I do it? Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '15 at 11:21

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Umm, pretty simple, eh? Open putty and establish your connection to the VPS. You gotta use a text editor such as nano to edit sources.list. Run this command:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then navigate to the end the file (a new line maybe) and keep Putty window open of course.

Simply copy the repository addresses you want to add to sources.list file to your clipboard.

Then right-click inside the Putty window and repository addresses will be added to the end of the file (if that didn't happen you can write the addresses by hand).

Press CTRL+O and then Enter to save the file.

That should be it.

answered Mar 08 '15 at 11:21

Hossein Jafari

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Unfortunately, it didn't work. It gave me this error message: -bash: nano: command not found – RyanB Mar 09 '15 at 05:19
Try vim, emacs or install another text editor. – Hossein Jafari Mar 09 '15 at 08:19

How to edit /etc/apt/sources.list using putty in a VPS setup

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