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using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

dandreae — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:58:29 GMT

'gedit' does not seem to be available on the sandbox, so I installed it using 'yum install gedit'.

But then when I run gedit it says "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display".

I am using the webclient SSH shell on 127.0.0.1:4200

Any suggestions on how to resolve this? And/or is there another easy-to-use editor already installed (other than vi)?

thanks!

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

nsabharwal — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:20:16 GMT

@David Andreae

try this and this

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

dandreae — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:45:54 GMT

thanks Neeraj. Do you have any ideas why the gedit won't run? And is there no other already-installed simple non-vi editor in the sandbox?

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

nsabharwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 05:03:11 GMT

@David Andreae

emacs....you can try that. I found vi is easy to use

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

nsabharwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:17:03 GMT

@David Andreae Just played with nano ...Easy to use

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

aervits — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 03:18:00 GMT

@David Andreae

gedit doesn't work Sandbox doesn't have a Window Manager like Gnome or KDE. You can follow tutorial from Ali Bajwa to add Gnome and then you can use GEDIT or any IDE you'd like.

Re: using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

dandreae — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:51:12 GMT

ah, thanks Artem, that's clarifying.