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Installation fails due to DISPLAY variable.

ChrisRDBANov 16 2008 — edited Nov 17 2008
When launching runInstaller, I get this message:

Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors
Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set. Failed <<<<I googled this message and I'm certainly not the first one to encounter it. However, I have:
1) DISPLAY=myIPAddress:0.0; export DISPLAY
2) DISPLAY=boxName:0.0; export DISPLAY
3) Attempted to use the "-ignoreSysPrereqs" command.

All to no avail. It is worth mentioning that I am installing 11g on Centos 5, which is in fact installed on a VM Ware Workstation.

Any ideas?

Edited by: ChrisRDBA on Nov 16, 2008 5:57 PM
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