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I am running KDE1.1 (defualt installation)

I am attempting to install Star office, and I am getting the following
set of error messages.  I've been a freebsd user for over 5 years, but
configuring and using xwindows is something new for me.  Any ideas where
I should look to find out how to get staroffice installed?

Thanks.

===>  Extracting for staroffice-5.2_1

Quote:>> Checksum OK for staroffice52/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin.
>> Checksum OK for staroffice52/109939-03.tar.Z.

glibc version: 2.1.2
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
/usr/ports/editors/staroffice52/work/office52/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin:
cannot connect to X server :0
*** Error code 255

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.

Quote:> I am attempting to install Star office, and I am getting the following
> set of error messages.
>  [...]
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

I am going to guess that you logged in as yourself and then 'su'ed
to root in an xterm to perform the install.  By default, X will
only allow the user who owns the session to access the display.
root, in this scenario, does not own the session.

To get the install to work, you can use the xhost command (in an
xterm owned by the user who created the session).  'xhost +' will
allow anybody anywhere to access the session.  Naturally this has
some important security implications.  Take a look at the man page
and balance your need for security with convenience.

Regards,

-- Norbert Papke.

Thanks, that was the solution to the problem.