This sounds like an X windows security problem. If you login and run X as one user, then open an Xterm and su to another user, that second user cannot run any graphical applications in X for security reasons.
So if you loged in and ran X as your normal user account (as you should) then did su to change to root account to install Word Perfect (as your are told to do) then you have a permision problem. You can overide the security of X by using a command called xhost. If you type: xhost + then any user from anywhere in the universe is allowed to run graphical applications on your X windows, this can be fun (and also very dangerous if you dont have any other security measures and are connected to the internet). A slightly safer solution is to use the following command: xhost +yourcomputername this will allow anyone who is logged on to your computer to run graphical applications. Summary: Login as normal user and run X Use the xhost command Change to root Run the WordPerfect install Pray !!! Hope this helps. "James R. Lunsford" wrote: > > Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's > no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was > really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run > under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm > window. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't run wordperfect on my > system? I saw a message about placing DISPLAY=":0.0" into my profile or > one of the bash files to eliminate some problems, but I don't know if > that will help. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."