Hi,
You must do it from a terminal session in X/gnome.
That message means you need to have a graphical console and you have  
only a text one, IE X is not running.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to install Firefox3 from a recent nightly tarball. However, 
> when I run the firefox script, I get the following message:
> 
> (firefox-bin:7131): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> I'm doing it as root from the console.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bertil Smark Nilsson
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