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x-11 forwarding and runInstaller

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I've been installing Oracle on Linux for decades and have never had this issue. Working from a Windows workstation, I start a PuTTY session to an Oracle Linux 6 server. The Putty session is configured for x-11 port forwarding. Up until now, firing up runInstaller has been a no-brainer. But now I am getting:


oracle:rmcatdev$ ./runInstaller
ERROR: Unable to verify the graphical display setup. This application requires X display. Make sure that xdpyinfo exist under PATH variable.

Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:10.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.


I also tried with 'ssh -X <username>@<servername>' from the windows command line, but behavior and messages were exactly the same.

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