transmission

mutexe · 07-25-2010, 01:58 PM

installed for slack 13.0 on my machine. I type transmission from the command line and get "Cannot open display:".

No dependancies except this line:

Quote:

Dependencies: libevent (available at SlackBuilds.org) is required,
but transmission will use a built-in libevent if you don't have
it installed already.

so i didnt bother getting it.
Any ideas anyone? Maybe there are dependancies but not listed on that site? Or something to make the gui side of it work? i'm on fluxbox on slack13.0.

Many thanks all.

Tom

mutexe · 07-25-2010, 02:06 PM

I've solved the issue (sort of).
sorry for wasting your reading time.

adamk75 · 07-25-2010, 05:32 PM

Please inform us what your solution was so that others who have the problem, and come across this thread, will benefit from your experience.

mutexe · 07-26-2010, 03:22 AM

After the installation via the slackbuild I realised I was still logged in as root. As soon as I exited back into my normal user account and typed 'transmission' it worked fine.

Really not sure why it didnt work as root. Maybe root is picking up on a different unconfigured xorg, hence the "Cannot open display:" message? No idea tbh. I never intend to run it as root so I really don't care too much.