[Gllug] Problem with installing OpenOffice - STILL

[Bernd Dittmann]

Hi,

tried it again tonight. Always the same problem:
The way I installed was as follow:

First of all I logged in to X as the user who wants
OpenOffice (have a couple of other users as well).

step1: unzip and untar it into /opt
step2: change into /install
step3: change to root and run ./setup

As root I got the message of not being able accesing
X, hence the complaint about the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-key.

Funnily enough I can run the -/setup script as user.
Have then the whole stuff as under StarOffice.

Then I tried the methods below with the following
result:

1. the xhost- method did not work. Was not allowed to.

2. using "xauth extract ..... (as below) gave me the 
response of: "/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: line
too long"

3. finally, trying "ssh root at localhost
/opt/install/./setup", the message was
"/opt/install/./setup: cannot connect to X server"

Are there any other ways around that problem? To be
fair, I am quite surprised as I formerly installed
StarOffice in the same way and was not troubled like
that.

Thanks folks.


--- tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >I can't remember the trickery required to let you
> run X applications as root 
> >from a regular user X session but there was some
> discussion a while back on 
> >the list about this.
> 
> By far the easiest way is just to do:
> 
> 	ssh root at localhost /path/to/x11/application
> 
> Of course, your sshd config file will need to have
> X11 forwarding
> turned on, but it is by default in RH, and probably
> other distributions
> too.
> 
> Alternatively, you can authorize root to connect to
> your X server:
> 
> 	xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh root at localhost
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth merge -
> 
> Or for the quick and dirty method:
> 
> 	xhost +
> 
> Note that the latter is a huge security risk, and
> certain applications
> (e.g., exmh) will take preventative measures to
> disable it as soon as
> you enable it...
> 
> Tet
> 
> 
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