Do you need the whole desktop, or do you just need to be able to run X 
applications?  I set my systems up so I can log in as root with an SSH 
key, use X forwarding, and the installers I've tried have worked fine.

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Timmy Siu wrote:

>>  Timmy Siu writes:
>> >  I found that some programs really do not work if I don't log into the
>> >  root desktop, especially when installing and configuring new
>> >  applications.
>>  This is a huge problem under MS Windows, but I've never encountered this
>>  under linux.  Which programs?  If there is a problem doing this with a
>>  linux program, one should file a bug report so people can fix it.
>> 
> Hi,
> Yes, it happened when I connected to a SL 5.5 host from a MS Windows PC. 
> Usually, I met this problem when installing commercial software.  Netvault 
> used to have a Linux FreeUse version of Netvault Backup.  I must log into the 
> root Desktop to install and configure it.
>
>
> Timmy
>
>

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