Configuring Mame

Question

I've installed Mame on Ubuntu 16.04, so far so good, but now wish to add my ROMS. I want to edit the mame.ini file but all I get is "permission denied" despite being an administrator (the only account), which seems to be a 'feature' of Ubuntu!! I'd rather not be messing about with command lines, especially as I can open and edit in GUI. Thanks.

Answer 1

You likely need root permissions to edit the file,. you will need to open it from a terminal but you can use a GUI editor to edit it.

First way to do this (and likely best for you) is to open the file manger as root with

gksu nautilus

and browse to the file you want to edit.

Alternatively, open the text editor and file directly

gksu gedit /path/to/the/file

Where /path/to/the/file is the location of the file you wish to edit.