I have a VPS on which I am attempting to install pure-FTPd via a root SSH account on a remote machine. I have already installed gedit and have gotten to the stage where I need to edit a config using gedit with the following command sudo gedit /etc/inetd.conf
However doing do results in...
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
(gedit:6155): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
I am a newbie at linux, please help, thanks
nano
orpico
orvi
. if you are actually in a gnome session try usinggksu
orgksudo
instead of sudo. gksu/gksudo are the same as sudo, but made for graphical sessions.