Hello all. I had OpenOffice 1.0.0 successfully installed on my system for a couple of months. On Saturday, I removed it, to do a clean install of OpenOffice 1.0.1. I followed the instructions on the OO.org site, which have not changed since the previous successful installation. You download the package into /tmp, su to root, untar the package, which creates a /tmp/install directory and dumps hundreds of files in there. Then, you cd to /tmp/install and run the install script. When I do that, this is the result: mybox:/tmp/install # ./install --prefix=/opt Installation starting, please be patient ... glibc version: 2.2.5 Initializing installation program.......... Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified cannot connect to X server Installation Completed mybox:/tmp/install # I tried earlier suggestions in the OpenOffice[users] list, but they assumed that I was using a terminal without X. In fact, I tried several different ways of running a terminal from withn KDE, and the result was the same every time. I'm making the assumption that if I have invoked a Konsole from the KDE menu of the desktop panel, then I am probably using X... yes? So, I searched the last few months of this list (SuSE-KDE) and found the suggestion by Ben Rosenberg:

You would need to do this...

ssh -X -l root localhost

The -X lets you exectute X programs as root :)

Again, I got exactly the same result as above.... though now, at least, "localhost" is in the database of trusted callers <grin>. So, the questions are: X is working, why is it refusing to acknowledge OO1.0.1 install? Or, why would OO1.0.1 install script be failing to get itself properly ingratiated with the X server? Is there some sort of link I could create, to fool somebody as to who they are talking to? Is there something like that "source" bash command that was used to fool OpenOffice1.0 into believing that I was running its favorite version of Java? Currently using SuSE 8.0, KDE 3.0.2, and XFree86 version 4.2.0. One difference between now and when OO1.0.0 was successfully installed, is that I probably had KDE 3.0.1 installed then. However, it still worked after I "upgraded" to KDE 3.0.2, so that's probably not the problem... (or is that a bad assumption?)_ There may be other differences, because I run YOU every couple of weeks. Thoughts? Suggestions? If it's RTFM, which FM do you mean? I've been searching FAQs and finding nothing related to this situation. The "Installation Guide" PDF ignores this issue. Thanks, /kevin (who needs an office suite to work, but doesn't have one)