Hi list, I consider myself new to Linux since i started using Linux in August of 2002. First i must point out to you the fact that my system has no upgrades or patches on it that fixes some bugs, this is because my system is not connected to the internet, and i see no reason to install those patches. After i installed the following packages of KDE 3.1: kdebase3 kdelibs3 qt3 qt3-non-mt And then rebooted the system to see how KDE 3.1 looks like, but when the system came at the point to schow me the login screen it just flashes a few times. Then goes back with this on it: Linux login: After i loged in i tryed to start KDE with this command: startkde But no luck, i get a message with a number of complaints. To me when i look at the message i can see only one problem, this is a part of the message: startkde: Could not startkdeinit.Check your installation. Error: Can't open display. Warning: connect ( ) failed: no such file or directory. startkde: Shutting down ... Warning: connect ( ) failed: no such file or directory. Error: Can't contact kdeinit ! To me it looks like a problem with kdeinit, as i sayed before this computer has no connection to the internet. To install KDE 3.1 i downloaded the packages on another computer and burnt them on a cd-rw, these packages i copieed to /home/xxx/Documents. And then installed them with YAST2 using the following command in Kconsole: yast -i /home/xxx/Documents/<package>.rpm When i had closed Kconsole i wanted to open it again, but there was a message saying something about kdeinit. I searched the list but could not find the sollution to my problem, i also searched on suse-linux-e without any luck. Who can help me with this ? What must i do to get KDE 3.1 up and running ? What package contains kdeinit ? System: SuSe Linux 8.0 Pro. Thanks in advance. Greetings, Walter Kerkhofs