[cw-discuss] Ubuntu + CXO = Confusion :)

[Phil Stopford]

Dow_Hurst wrote:
> You should do what the other guy said about changing the root password.  However, a simple ssh -X root at localhost will give you X access once your able to get in as root.  Disable the xhost+ command you issued.  You don't want to leave that open.  I've installed many a program that required X access as root using that method.
> Dow
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Phil Stopford <phil at ldex.terica.net>
>> Sent: Aug 11, 2006 1:26 PM
>> To: discuss at crossover.codeweavers.com
>> Subject: [cw-discuss] Ubuntu + CXO = Confusion :)
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm largely lurking until Wine bug 2398 gets squashed, otherwise I'm
>> stuck with CXO 3.x for my current purposes *sigh* That said, I did write
>> my doctoral thesis using CXO 4.x and it never let me down and I keep a 
>> current version of CXO installed.
>>
>> Having moved away from SUSE due to its rather poor 10.1 release and the 
>> rapid fall off in community interest for the superior 10.0 release, I 
>> found myself installing Ubuntu's latest. It's pretty nice, but CXO seems 
>> to have a lot of trouble with it:
>>
>> 1) The Loki installer simply refuses to play ball because the home 
>> directory is not owned by root. This seems related to the non-existence 
>> of an active root account.
>>
>> 2) Despite the Loki installer being the recommended option, I went ahead 
>> and installed the debian package. No problems there, but no 
>> configuration tool is shown at the end. Hmmm. Running :
>>
>> sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup
>>
>> gets nowhere because it cannot connect to the X server. Usually 'xhost 
>> +localhost' and using 'su -' sorts this out, but no such luck here. I'd 
>> like to set up managed multiple user mode, but there seems no way to do it.
>>
>> Needless to say, I'm a little confused. Is MMU mode supported under 
>> Ubuntu, or is CXO stuck with per-user configuration at the moment? 
>> Calling /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup as a regular user works just fine.
>>
>> I couldn't come up with anything useful from a trawl around the 
>> numerous, isolated pockets of information on the CW site (it really, 
>> really needs a wiki to consolidate the various hints/tips/known issues)
>>
>> 3) Having got per-user mode running (boo! this puts heavy load on disk 
>> space and makes it much more difficult to update apps), I would have 
>> liked to be able to install some IE-dependent apps in a Win2K bottle. 
>> This doesn't seem to be supported because IE is installed into Win98 
>> instead. This is confusing. I'm wondering which of the following is true :
>>
>> - Can we install IE into bottles other than Win98, without everything 
>> going pear shaped?
>> - If not, is IE emulated somehow in these other bottles, or is there no 
>> way to reconcile the IE-dependency for Win2K.
>>
>> I am....confused. Documentation seems to be vague or non-existant. Help 
>> :) This is what you get when I renew my subscription :b
>>
>> Phil Stopford.
>>

Thanks all.