[Gllug] Problem with installing OpenOffice

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 26 June 2002 03:32, Bernd Dittmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> installed OpenOffice a couple of days ago. But
> unfortunately I cannot start it for the following
> reason.
>
> I installed as follow:
>
> Logged in as root on the shell, not X. Once I had the
> tarball in "/opt" I proceeded with "tar -zxvf ..",
> changed into the directory "install" to execute
> "./install --prefix=/opt".
>
> But this is the point where the problem comes up. The
> shell tells me the following:
>
> "Installation starting, please be patient ...
> glibc version 2.2.2
>
> Initializing installation programme .......
> XLib: connection to 0.0 refused by server
> XLib: invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> cannot connect to X server

The installer is an X program. While you may be running it from a console, It 
still needs access to the X server. If you are logged into X as a regular 
user, you may not be able to access X as root (it depends on how the various 
distributions set up Xauth etc.)

> Installation complete

It isn't complete, it's probably a saying that because the program has 
terminated. A bug probably. Unless I've misunderstood you.

> X Windows System does not support locale
> "LC-CTYPE=en_GB at euro,..." the same for numeric, time,
> monetary, and so on.
>
> I wonder why the shell says something about connecting
> to X. I was working on the console, not under X.

 Well if you are at a vt then it certainly wont work as there IS no X server.

> I nonetheless continued with the setup, i.e. "./setup"
> and installed as a workstation. Looked fine.

How can you tell?

> BUT: I
> cannot start Openoffice from the taskbar or the shell
> since everytime I got the complaint about the
> MAGIC-KEY (see above).
> What on earth is going on?

I think you have to run install as root and then run setup as a regular user 
(for each user that wishes to use OO). Both are X applications and should be 
run such that the appropriate user can access the X server.

> Do you know where the problem lies and how to solve
> it?

Actually, I'm confused now (again).
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. It just works on my distro (Mandrake). Or at least it 
used to until I broke it :-)

Steve
-- 
Stephen Harker
steve at pauken.co.uk

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