Prefatory reminder: I'm a dummy. Righty-ho, I have now installed a pile of Japanese related software (listed below). I believe that running canna and kinput2 will allow me to input Japanese when for example writing messages in Mozilla, and that kinput2 requires canna which should therefore be run first. http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/canna.html tells me that I
can start the cannaserver with
~$ /etc/init.d/canna start
(Remember, you're dealing with a true dummy here: I don't even know the meaning of "~$".) In the console (or konsole), I change directory to /etc/init.d/ and type canna start and thereupon read: "Starting Canna Kanji Server [followed by a lot of spaces and then finally, in red:] failed" Ah. Suggestions? +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Already installed: a2ps-perl-ja canna canna-libs cannadic ghostscript-cjk jfbterm jtools kde3-i18n-ja kinput2 kterm lv man-pages-ja nkf nvi-m17n nvi-m17n-canna sdb_en susehelp_en susetour_en termcap ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho xfntjp xmanja yast2-trans-ja