how edit yum.conf

[J. Michael Morse]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:16:45 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis
<peterlesterhuis at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Hello list,
> I feel like moving one step forward and three steps backward.
> How should I edit yum.conf? When I open yum.conf in gedit and make a few
> changes I cann't save the file bacause of an error message.
> Should I be logged in as root in gedit? How does one become root in gedit?
> Thanks, Peter Lesterhuis.
> 
One possibility:

Open a terminal.
SU
enter password
run gedit from command line

There are probably others