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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:57:48 -0800
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:13:25PM -0500, Sick Cow 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

Well, X11 has to be running in order to have a display to connect to.

In addition, the DISPLAY environment variable has to be set in order for
an X11 application to know what display to connect to; set it to ":0" if
it's not already set.