For grins yesterday, I thought I'd try to install Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux on my 8.2 box. Here is what I experienced. In root, jumping to the install directory, i performed the instructed ./setup and got back the error message cannot connect to the X server, just as I had experienced in trying to do the install on a 7.3 box. O.K., I thought, I'll try the other ting that didn't work on the 7.3 box, and loaded the super user file manager, went into the setup directory on the cd and clicked on the setup icon. Viola, the install began and ran to completion telling me that the install was complete and ready to go. Only it said all I had to do was click on the desktop icons and there weren't any. Did a number of whereis things but nothing offered worked. Did a manual search through /usr where the install said all would be placed but still, nothing worked from either clicking or from the shell. Gave up and just for fun this morning once again did a whereis and got a good return. From bash /usr/bin/quattropro started thing running up to a point.Below is a record of what occurs. dcjohan@linux:~> whereis quattropro quattropro: /usr/bin/quattropro /usr/man/man1/quattropro.1.gz dcjohan@linux:~> cd /usr/bin dcjohan@linux:/usr/bin> quattropro Notice: Using config file: /etc/fonttastic/config Here I see the normal "No running font server was detected, I will try to start one on this server and then wait 30 seconds for it to run. Then, this is followed by "Unable to add the FontTastic font server to the font path. The fontserver is probably not installed or not running.Correct the problem and try again." Both error messages are QuattroPro error messages. dcjohan@linux:/usr/bin> quattropro Notice: Using config file: /etc/fonttastic/config Binding TCP socket: Address already in use Fatal: Cannot establish any listening sockets Notice: Font server terminated: Fri Jul 9 20:37:15 2004 Font server terminated: See /var/log/fonttastic/fs-errors Content of /var/log/fonttastic Notice: Font server started: Fri Jul 9 20:36:02 2004 Copyright 2000 Bitstream Inc. SDK Version 1.3.6 Fatal: Terminate or interrupt signal received. Notice: Font server terminated: Fri Jul 9 20:40:28 2004 Notice: Font server started: Sat Jul 10 08:43:04 2004 Copyright 2000 Bitstream Inc. SDK Version 1.3.6 If it is of any help, here is the contents of /etc/fonttastic/config -------------- # font server configuration file # $XConsortium: config.cpp,v 1.7 91/08/22 11:39:59 rws Exp $ clone-self = on use-syslog = off catalogue = /usr/share/fonts/userfonts, /usr/share/fonts/wprequired error-file = /var/log/fonttastic/fs-errors # # A "well-behaved" configuration file requires all of the font files # in the specified catalogues to be valid files that the font server # can interpret. It also requires the font file extensions indicate the # type of font file as follows: # .pfa or .pfb Adobe Type 1 format # .spd Speedo font file format # .ttf TrueType format # # If the font files are not well-behaved, whenever the font server is # initialized (or updated), it must open each font file and verify its # format. This can be very time consuming and should be avoided. If you # are unsure of the font files installed, set well-behaved to False. # well-behaved = False # # By default, scalable outline fonts are preferred to nonscalable bitmap # fonts. If this behaviour is undesirable, setting the "prefer-bitmaps" # option will establish a preference for bitmap fonts. # # It is important to note that this option only works within a single # font path element. That is, the scalable and nonscalable fonts must # be in the same directory. The "catalogue" item above dictates the order # in which font path elements are examined when matching fonts. If you # wish to keep your bitmap fonts separate from the outline fonts, you can # specify the preferred order in the catalogue statement. # prefer-bitmaps = False # in decipoints default-point-size = 120 default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100 port = 7102 ------------- Any and all help on how to correct the problem greatly appreciated. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe