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I have followed all of the instructions on this page to try and get a graphical program running from inside a chrooted environment

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot

The only difference is that I substituted xenial for trusty.

The installation went fine and no complaints in the terminal at issuing any of the commands.

However, when I get to the part where is says I can run firefox in a chrooted environment with this command:

gksudo chroot /var/chroot firefox -DISPLAY=:0.0

the firefox window does not come up. A window comes up asking for my administrative password, which I enter, and then nothing, it just exits to a command prompt with no messages.

I'm hoping there is a simple answer to this, thanks for any help

Anwar
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ubuntu_is_cool
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Change -DISPLAY=:0.0 to --display=:0.0.

Eliah Kagan
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Darin
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I installed firefox inside the chroot and it ran from inside the chroot. Then I ran the command from outside the chroot like in the article and it ran from outside the chroot. I think they may have omitted a step in the instructions.

ubuntu_is_cool
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  • Which step? It's implied that firefox is installed on the chrooted system. Otherwise it makes no sense! – Anwar Aug 16 '17 at 17:08