Re: [SLUG] Can't get netscape to install...SuSE 8.0

From: Matt Miller (mmiller1@mptotalcare.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 14:27:38 EDT


On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 13:19, David Meyer wrote:
> OK...I'm stuck. I can't get past the following when trying to install
> Netscape. Can't figure out what is going wrong as I've not run into this
> before:
>
> david@dilbert:~> su
> Password:
> dilbert:/home/david # cd /tmp/netscape-installer
> dilbert:/tmp/netscape-installer # ./netscape-installer
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Any ideas?

Root does not have access to your X session.
Try this:
dilbert:/home/david # ssh -X root@localhost
(assuming sshd allows root access);"PermitRootLogin yes" in sshd_config
password:
dilbert:/root # /tmp/netscape-installer

Matt





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