I've just grabbed a copy of Xara (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/). I remember it from Acorn days and it was a superb program then.

I downloaded the AutoPackage Archive and ran that. It complained about some missing files and offered to fetch them. I ok'd that and off it went. But once that was completed, it didn't return to the command prompt. Instead it said it was resuming installation. I waited and waited and gave up in the end and killed it with Ctrl-C. I then restarted the install and this time it went straight through.

It has appeared in the menu (I'm running KDE on Mandriva 64 bit) but when I click on it, it produces a bar on the taskbar with a hourglass on it, but the bar disappears with no output anywhere.

I've done a 'dmesg | tail' but that doesn't produce anything since a previous error message which I knew about.

How can I find out what's going wrong please?

Cardboard programmer time! I did a chmod on the install file as root. I then did the install as root. Could that be anything to do with it, and if so, how do I fix it?

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