On 8 August 2011 06:42, andre999 <[email protected]> wrote: > Everything seemed to install ok, but when I try to run a gui application > (such as rpmdrake) under chroot, I get the message : > > "No protocol specified > Cannot be run in console mode."
Which is expected > If anyone has an idea what I might be missing, it would be appreciated :) One way to run X11 stuff from a chroot is to run: CHROOT=/where/is/my/chroot xhost +SI:localuser:root mount --bind /tmp/.X11-unix/ $CHROOT/tmp/.X11-unix/ chroot $CHROOT rpmdrake/gedit/firefox/... If instead you want to allow all local users, you could alternatively replace the xhost call by: xhost + local:
