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"Victor Subervi" <victorsubervi@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi;
> I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it
> took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up:
> # poedit
> Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?
> What do?

I don't know the program, but it looks like it only runs inside of X,
so you need to have X actually running when you start it.  Was this
the case?  If so, did you check what DISPLAY was set to?