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Originally posted by RebootKid
Open up a shell, and type sux and type in your root password. (this is similar to a su -, however it allows for Xwindows to work correctly. It's a weird Suse thing)
I'm a little curious about this sux command though, anymore info? hehe.
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 Pro and Debian Testing on Server
Posts: 469
Rep:
If you don't use the sux command, you cannot open gui windows from a terminal emulator where you have su'd into root. Another way to enable the gui for a terminal window running as root is to issue these commands to log in as root.
linux:/home/robert/Documents # rpm -ivh scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
docbook_4 is needed by scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73
sgml-skel is needed by scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73
To successfully install Gaim on Suse 9.1 you need to install a few dependencies first.
1. Go to http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...Network%2Fgaim and install the dependencies in the order given. BUT - DON'T install the 'gnutls' RPM from this site - it won't work. If you do / have done already, uninstall it with rpm -e
2. One or two of these installations will probably in turn require dependencies installed before running. You can find these by Googling them. 'liblzo.so.1' is at http://rpmseek.com/rpm/lzo-1.08-104....:0:0:0:1501905
=-O Ug, I'm trying to install GAIM now and ran into dependacy issues (SuSE 9.1) .
Looks like it's time to play grab the dependancy packages.
Thanks for all the info in this thread.
Ok, I tried to follow rebootkids' advice about installing redcarpet, however, when I type in sux and then put in my root pw, I received the following error msg:
hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/unix:0.0" in "extract" command
What does this mean? How do I correct this so that I can use sux and install redcarpet ? Thanks!
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