yast

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 9:13 am, someone claiming to be Rick Sivernell 
wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:41:15 -0400
>
> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 October 2004 06:27 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > >    how do i get the gui YAST program to run, command please. when I use
> > > yast I get a text based version and I can only install games with it.
> > > colours blue background with black text. useless.
> >
> > If you're running it from an xterm (under KDE for example) the command
> > you want is  'yast2'
> >
> >
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> Well I did have xfce running, switched to su - root > passwd in a xterm.
> typed both yast & yast2 and got text based program. I guess I am missing
> something here? According to prev replies I did it right, must have
> clobbered a lib or something.
>

prior to su -'ing, did you xhost +localhost? I doubt your su - session had 
access to a display for the GUI.

You could also try kdesu, but you're using XFCE...

HTH, 
Tim

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