using gedit on Hortonworks Sandbox

[#1]

'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!

[#2]

@David Andreae

try this and this

[#3]

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?

[#4]

@David Andreae

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

[#5]

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

[#6 · Accepted solution]

@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.

[#7]

ah, thanks Artem, that's clarifying.