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What failed? This was the whole piont of the thread. When I tried to run the OOo install from command line as su with borrowed uid I get the error:

./setup: cannot connect to X server

But Andrew and Thomas have both failed to try and help work out a solution.

Instead they basicly argue over who knows more about linux and who knows how to do something unrealted to the problem. Could we please get back to the question at hand? Now that I have OOo install, whenever I try and run I get this error:

I apologise for disconcerting you - but I believed that you had already come to a conclusion with your problem by logging into X as the root user, hence the meandering. (I think you should also accept that you do not really 'own' a thread. Having believed that you had solved your difficulty, Thomas and I were exploring different methods of remote management, not trying to prove anything. Perhaps that particular meander has now lost its general level of interest.)

cannot be started due to an error accessing the configuration data.

This smells of Linux permissions. What are the perms on the installation files and which user is now trying to access them? -- Email: aray@computerpark.co.uk -- Email: aray@computerpark.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------- This private and confidential e-mail has been sent to you by Computer Park Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please notify us via the email address or telephone number below, and then delete it from your mailbox. Email: mailbox@computerpark.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1536 417155 Fax: +44 (0) 1536 417566 Head Office: Computer Park Ltd, Broughton Grange, Headlands, Kettering Northamptonshire NN15 6XA Registered in England: 3022961. Registered Office: 6 North Street, Oundle, Peterborough PE8 4AL =========================================================