Line Renderer methods not found?

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Hello. I am trying to make a simple line with the line renderer (my first time). But when i try to add the .set functions, there are none available. I have added a the line renderer to a gameobject (same as the script is applied to).

I tried copy pasting the codes from the Unity example: Unity - Scripting API: LineRenderer.SetPosition

My code looks like this:

using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections;
    
    public class LineRenderer : MonoBehaviour {
    
    	public Transform startpoint;
    	public Transform endpoint;
    
    	public Color c1 = Color.yellow;
    	public Color c2 = Color.red;
    	public int lengthOfLineRenderer = 20;
    
    	// Use this for initialization
    	void Start () {
    		LineRenderer lineRenderer = gameObject.AddComponent<LineRenderer>();
    		lineRenderer.material = new Material(Shader.Find("Particles/Additive"));
    		lineRenderer.SetColors(c1, c2);
    		lineRenderer.SetWidth(0.2F, 0.2F);
    		lineRenderer.SetVertexCount(lengthOfLineRenderer);
    	}
    	
    	// Update is called once per frame
    	void Update () {
    		LineRenderer lineRenderer = GetComponent<LineRenderer>();
    		int i = 0;
    		while (i < lengthOfLineRenderer) {
    			Vector3 pos = new Vector3(i * 0.5F, Mathf.Sin(i + Time.time), 0);
    			lineRenderer.SetPosition(i, pos);
    			i++;
    		}
    	}
    }

This is what the error says:

Assets/Script/LineRenderer.cs(16,30): error CS1061: Type LineRenderer' does not contain a definition for material’ and no extension method material' of type LineRenderer’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

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You’ve violated one of Unity commandments:

Thou shalt never save a script with the same name of any Unity class

Since you’ve saved the script as LineRenderer, a new class named LineRenderer was created and hid the original LineRenderer. Save the script with another name (and remember to rename the class declaration accordingly, and also to delete the old script) - for instance:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class LineRendererScript : MonoBehaviour {
    ...

Save the script as LineRendererScript.cs, then delete the old LineRenderer.cs