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Please don't assume a display for package installation

SciViews is the latest of several packages that need an X server to 
complete package installation.

Please bear in mind that packages may get installed on a server with no 
display, yet run on client workstations with displays.  If your package is 
intended to start a window when it starts up, please test for a display 
first (e.g. via capabilities("X11")).

There are ways around this (running Xvfb, arranging a remote display) but 
they are tedious at best (and few machines come with Xvfb installed).