[quoted lines by mark muscat on October 12, 2002, at 17:06]
>I am getting the following error message ocasionally when I am trying to
>install package in particular the realplayer package.
>error: can't open display.
This error means that your DISPLAY environment variable isn't pointing to a
usable X server. There are a few ways you can resolve this.
You can use trplayer rather than realplay. It's a command-line version of the
Real Player.
You can install X and then point to it. Once X is running, you point to it by
doing:
export DISPLAY=:0
Note that, since you're not pointing to it from an X session, you must
authorize such access with the command:
xhost +localhost
This authorization must be done either from within an X session (probably
difficult) or from within an X session setup script, e.g.
"/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0".
You can set up a pretend X server, attach it to some other (not 0) X server
number (I'll use 2), and point to it. You do this with the following commands:
Xvfb :2 -ac -screen 2 800x600x32 -fn 7x14
export DISPLAY=:2
Note that no xhost authorization is required if you do it this way.
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