Which is absolutely unnecessary to be able run mcc or any other drak
tool. They su anyway.
-andrej
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner@linux-
> mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Mullaley
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Cooker] openssh-client
>
> If you merely had a terminal open and tried to run anything X, it
should
> have failed. As your normal user, do a 'xhost + localhost', then su to
> root.
> After that you need to export your DISPLAY variable ('export
> DISPLAY=:0.0').
> At that point your root terminal session has the ability to run X apps
on
> your local users desktop.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of
> Joal Heagney
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] openssh-client
>
>
> Florin wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S N) writes:
> >
> > > Cooker,
> > >
> > > In 8.0 the only way to install openssh-client is to
> > > install as root. I tried SUing and then DrakConf but I
> > > couldn't install.
> > >
> > > When I logged on and installed as root it
> > > openssh-client worked.
> > >
> > > This might be fixed already.
> > >
> > > Shad
> >
> > usually, one can install packages only as root ...
> > --
> > Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
>
> But not everyone operates their X-interface as root, prefering to
> operate as normal user, and dropping into root through a su-ed
terminal
> in order to do system administration.
> --
> Joal Heagney is: _____ _____
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