how to solve (*** Mininet must run as root.) in pycharm?

Question

I'm completely new to Linux and Python. I want to run a mininet python test file using Pycharm but got the following error

*** Mininet must run as root.

How to solve this ?

Answer 1

Become root!!! To run something as root, first you need root privileges, and then have a look at the sudo man page.

First see that you have this access:

sudo mn

If this works then ctrl+c

Then run it like:

sudo python miniedit.py