Failed to open display on debian OS

asked 2015-07-15 13:24:21 +0100

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Aim doing a libre office installation on debian 8.1 os, but getting error

root@Cloud1:/home# cd libreoffice/ root@Cloud1:/home/libreoffice# instdir/program/soffice --writer Failed to open display

Please help me on this error.

Thanks Venky

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Is this a headless installation? or X11? and why are you running as root?

answered 2015-07-16 09:51:14 +0100

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Hi Alex,

Fresh installation doing, on this server and this does not have X11.

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