Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] fixed X11 problem but...

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From: Justin Walker <justin@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:44:01 -0800

On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 03:06 PM, Deadcow wrote:

well, I guess I fixed the previous problem by removing X11 and I've installed ethereal. When I run sudo ethereal I get...

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

This is running from my terminal. Technically it should open right because I've installed xfree86. Or would I have to reinstall the panther version of x11? thanks for the help

If, from that terminal window, you type "echo $DISPLAY", what do you see?

Regards,

Justin

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