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Problem with Firefox installation

Hi,

I downloaded Firefox under my regular user account to my home directory. I then su into root from a console and copied the tar.gz file to /. I extracted it to get the firefox-installer directory but when I try to run ./firefox-installer from that directory I get the following error message.

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(firefox-installer-bin:7719): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Can someone tell me what this means and what I have to do to go about fixing it?

Re: Problem with Firefox installation

Quote:

Originally posted by aznluvsmc
Hi,

I downloaded Firefox under my regular user account to my home directory. I then su into root from a console and copied the tar.gz file to /. I extracted it to get the firefox-installer directory but when I try to run ./firefox-installer from that directory I get the following error message.

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(firefox-installer-bin:7719): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Can someone tell me what this means and what I have to do to go about fixing it?

You're at a console and entered su
so now enter

sh firefox-installer, this should take care of things.

Though I don't recall having to be root to install firefox.