but you *did* have to install xdpyinfo right? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GovindanK Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:26 PM To: Jared Still Cc: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: Linux xdpyinfo for 11g I received a suggestion off the list and it worked well. The solution is # xhost +localhost $ DISPLAY=":0" ; export DISPLAY ; /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock and Voila!!!!. This time i did not use ignoresysprereqs. The installer came up properly. HTH GovindanK On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:08:52 -0700, "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> said: On 8/17/07, GovindanK <gkatteri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I find many of you (Andrew , Reidy, Rich, Nadeem , Stefan, Alessandro) had replied to this. Thanks for all. One suggestion I didn't see was to use vncserver. Simple to use, and you can then just use vncviewer from your desktop. eg: login as oracle # set vnc password vncpasswd # run vncserver on port 10 vncserver :10 Just download RealVNC to your desktop, connect to <your server>:10 and supply the password. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist