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my2cents
02-28-2003, 07:19 AM
Hi
I have installed Synaptic into my chrooted environment but get an error "synaptic:could not open display"

I have read the instructions that say you have to export DISPLAY........
#DISPLAY=myip:0.0 (replace my ip with your actual IP)
#export DISPLAY
#synaptic

I have tried this with every combination I can think of but nothing is working. This is the output:-


Setting up synaptic (0.16-6) ...

root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=211.26.141.228
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=203.134.64.66
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=127.0.0.1
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=iprimus:0.0
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for iprimus
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=203.134.14.21
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=iprimus:203.134.14.21
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]# DISPLAY=iprimus:0.0
root@not a tty[/]# export DISPLAY
root@not a tty[/]# synaptic
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for iprimus
synaptic:could not open display
root@not a tty[/]#

I am obviously doing something wrong :-(
Thanks for any help
Trish