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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

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    you are using an SSH terminal connection, right? just text? if so, you want to use a text-based text editor like nano or pico or vi. if you are actually in a gnome session try using gksu or gksudo instead of sudo. gksu/gksudo are the same as sudo, but made for graphical sessions.
    – Frank Thomas
    Jun 27, 2014 at 18:39

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Gedit is a graphical editor. However, SSH is a strictly NON-graphical interface. Therefore, use a text-based editor like nano or vim.

For example:

sudo vim /etc/inetd.conf
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