Hi all
I need root permission to install a sw and when i tried sudo setup i got msg say i have to try sudo ./setup and when i used it i got this “cannot connect to X server” the problem is the root have a large space and i need to install the program there just create a folder and install the sw there. how can i do this ?
i need to be root in gui!!!
Thanks
You don’t need to be in root for an installation.
The easiest way is to open a console and enter
su –
(openSUSE does not come with sudo configured; so you have to do that first to use sudo)
But you can also access superuser (i.e. root) from KDE.
instead of sudo, try kdesu or gnomesu.
Uwe
If you want to install software with a GUI that you need to start from the command line then you need to run the sudo ./setup from a console box inside gnome or KDE.
Then you won’t get the X error.
Thanks for you all,
i switch user and create new one with name “root” and then i became able to do what i want to do 
sorry i didn’t try this option before.
again thanks for you all.
Logging in to your graphic environment as root is a spectacularly bad idea, and will in many ways give you less security than Windows.
Creating a new user called root is an even spectacularly worse idea, and shouldn’t be possible. I suspect, if you have in fact managed to do so, you’ve just broken your system.