On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 06:15:45 am a.l.e wrote: > hi > > > Looking at /usr/local/scribus_svn/bin/ there is an executable with the > > name "scribus." Launching it starts Scribus 1.3.9. Its properties says > > it is owned by root. Launching it from the command line as root gives > > me: > > > > [root at Devil8 bin]# scribus > > No protocol specified > > scribus: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > > > The properties for the executable only say that it is owned by root; > > there is no further information about the file. > > please, refrain from running scribus as root! > > it's not a good idea. > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___
In general you cannot run anything from the gui if you have signed on as a user and then done su in a GUI console session to get root privileges. So at runtime use your user sign in as ALE recommends. Building Scribus is a different matter. My method is to build Scribus as root using cron overnight, but then run it from my user name. Cron runs with root privleges. My cron call is very simple. In the folder /etc/cron.daily I have a two line file that looks like this: /usr/local/scrib140 /usr/local/scrib150 This file is made executable by the command: chmod 777 (filename) The texts of scrib140 and scrib150 have been posted before. They also have to be made executable with chmod. Note that for my method the files /usr/local/src/s140 and /usr/local/src/s150 must exist. Otherwise bad things will happen. Those of us who use Slackware or a Slackware derivative have the necessary libraries for compiling Scribus, which is Qt based. Slackware assumes that you will be compiling programs that use Qt. Other distros assume that you will be useing the Gnome libraries. So it is easier to compile Scribus on Slackware, but easier to compile e.g., Inkscape on another distribution. Salix, a Slackware derivative, gives you the best of both worlds. -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110622/a2f471ad/attachment.html>
