James wrote:
Hi all,
I have the same problem with installing web browser opera 9 on Solaris 10:
bash-3.00# pwd
/usr/local/bin
bash-3.00# ./opera
opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use
/root/.opera/
1) Why are you running as root instead of a normal user?
2) Resetting $HOME makes it not find $HOME/.xauthority with the
magic cookies needed to access your display. Sounds like a
bug in Opera for overriding $HOME. You may be able to workaround
by setting XAUTHORITY to /.xauthority first, but the best solution
is STOP RUNNING IT AS ROOT and create yourself a non-root account
for tasks like web browsing which have no business running as root.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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