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Yes, I installed with gslapt
No, I didn't check the md5sum. What is it and how do I check it? What does the info in it tell me?
No Error message, it just won't start. The icon bounces a few times and it looks like it's loading, but it just doesn't start.

do the followings on your terminal:

md5sum salixlive.....iso

and compare it to the md5sum value from the xubuntu site.

Ah, by the way, did you start the application as root?

md5sum is the same as the one on the xubuntu site.
No, I didn't start it as root. There is no right click, start as root option. As root in the terminal I don't know what the command is to start unetbootin. How do I open it as root outside of the terminal, or inside? It would be useful to know both for future reference. Thanks.

I guess you are using KDE.

Yes, I am. Will it not work in KDE, do I need gnome?

Also, is there some kind of dictionary of terminal commands? It would speed up my learning curve if I could just read through it all.

Here is a good place to start
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=852

There is also a section on command line stuff on the start up guide.

I am not so familiar with KDE. But i will just check it on my other partition which has KDE on it.

Meanwhile, try this:

1) open a terminal
2) type in: su - (don't forget this small - at the end. normally you don't have to do this. but due to a bug in unetbootin, this is necessary)
3) type in your root password
4) type: unetbootin

Tried that and got this error:

No protocol specified
unetbootin: cannot connect to X server :0

http://www.tuxfiles.org

is also a good resource

as is

http://www.linuxquestions.org

both for asking questions and for searching.

Try:
*before* typing su - to change to root user. Just a stab in the dark ... unetbootin works normally here without it.

That worked! Unetbootin works now!
What did xhost + do to fix it? It said disabled access control, so I probably did something stupid that I didn't know about that enabled it. I just wish I knew what I did so I could learn from this.

Thanks for all the help guys, I really do appreciate it!