which did you use? su or su - su will give you root priviliges with your path su - will give you root with root's paths.
sorry for such an elementary Q... :-( I thought you could do ANYTHING as root.. Debian Woody -- su to root to install e.g. OO.o, error message: glibc version: 2.2.5 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server .../setup: cannot connect to X server :0 so I have to logout as user and login as root on X11... why? (or should I just install as user?) Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html