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Re: Diety / Apt Questions.



On Sat, 2 May 1998 hospedales@wow.net wrote:

> Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based?
> Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or
> dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve
> reject the connection?

If you do this you have to set the XAUTHORITY path, I use somehting like:

export XAUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority

In my 'jgg' user's .xsession file.

Jason


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