Re: [mh] Install Tk and general help

[Matthew W. <mat...@us...>]

Michael Check wrote:

> So I have two questions.  First, in playing with the web control site,
> I noticed that perl needs Tk?  

Michael,

The tk interface is usually only used on the machine on which mh is running
and requires an X-11 server in a *nix environment.  If you don't have an
X-11 server running, then you should disable tk by setting the mh
configuration variable "tk" to 0.  I do this in my mh.private.ini file, but
you can also pass "-tk 0" on the command line.

> t/after......................couldn't connect to display ":0" at

This is letting you know that the tk interface tests can't connect to the
default X-11 server, which is called :0.  You can force the installation to
continue by using "force install Tk", but without a X-11 server, the Tk
stuff is useless anyway.  As you are running headless, I would suggest
ignoring Tk.

By the way, I run mh on a headless server as well.  I use the telnet,
instant messenger and web interfaces to control mh.

Matt