Netscape installer works as user, not root?!

[jrbush82]

I have downloaded the netscape installer for 6.1 and am trying to install it. The first problem I ran across was not having gtk and glib installed, so I did that. Now I'm trying to install it as a user, it works great, but if I'm root, I get this message:

root@jason:/home/jason/downloads/netscape-installer# ./netscape-installer
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

Any ideas? I was root when I compiled and installed both of these. Weird.

Thanks,
Jason

[binary_boy]

That's not a netscape problem. Its an X-windows permissions problem. As user, open a console and type xhost + - then su to root and try the netscape installer again.

[jrbush82]

wahoo, thanks...