Hi!

Im trying to install OpenOffice 1.1.0, but after i tar the file and everything, i issue "./setup -net" (just like they say - http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/instructions.html) and i get this message:

glibc version: 2.3.1
./setup: cannot connect to X-server

Any suggestions?


Thanx in advance!!!

I've had that happen before too. Try running the install script, which is distributed with the newer versions of OO. Run it with ./install.sh it should guide you through the process. After installing you have to set it up for each user on your machine (just a quick little setup in the OpenOffice directory) but the installer should tell you how to do it. Hope that helps! One more caveat, since this seems like your first time running OO, you may have to install your anti-aliased fonts and printers through spadmin (another little script in the OpenOffice directory).

Good Luck!

david

Thanx!

I got it installed, ran the 'little setup' u told (soffice), but i had to run it from "run..", on the desktop, u know? (im sorry, im brazilian and im a newbie! :-) If i was to run soffice from xterm it would give a error message about display or something... but anyway, i got the setup running (as root, im running XWindow as root), but now... i dont know what to do!! :-) At openoffice.org, they say at last step "That's it! If you use GNOME or KDE (provided your distro keeps the KDE user files in ~/.kde2), you will find that OpenOffice.org is fully integrated in your environment. If you use a different Windowmanager, you can start OpenOffice.org by typing ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice" Im using XWindow, so i did the second case... and got this error message:

< Cant open display:

Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
or check permissions of your X-Server
(See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details) >

...and it didnt run with "run..." on the desktop...


Im REALLY a newbie, so... go easy, ok? :-) I mean... i dont what display is! :-) Is it a variabe, a config file...

I'll try to help. But I've never had that specific problem... So just to make sure. You ran "install.sh" from the unpacked directory... then as a user, not as root, you went to the openoffice install directory (usually it's in opt or /usr/share and it's called "OpenOffice" and ran "setup" which installed user specific stuff. After that you should be able to (as the user you installed it under) run "soffice" and it should come up...

ps, don't apologize for being new, we all were (as a matter of fact I think I still am no matter what my little category says underneath my name, there's too much to learn).

david

just skimming the post, sorry if i don't answer the question directly

when you are trying to run soffice from terminal, did you do su- (enter root password) before you issued the soffice command? or did you login as another user in the terminal?

if so, that is your problem; just open a fresh terminal and type soffice