On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hail Mary pass suggestion:  some R packages want x11 around to get fonts etc,
> which has caused us grief in the past as it would prevent headless server
> operation.  Easiest fix: install the xvfb server package and precede your
> (shell) command call with 'xvfb-run' eg
>
>         xvfb-run python someScript.py
>
> or
>
>         xvfb-run someScript.py
>
> Let's see how that goes.
>

That works. This gives me a path for a kluge fix. Please let me know
if you have any ideas for a more elegant solution.

Thanks for your help.


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