Thanks for your reply. I did what you advise but the result is the same. Francisco Leovey replied a bit earlier than you stating that "PgAdmin MUST be run under a graphical environment. Do a startx to bring up the GDI" which I will try at the office since I have a spare computer to play around there.
> (Newbie here) > > 1. I successfully installed Ubuntu server 32 bit on my computer. > 2. Then I installed PostgreSQL and PgAdmin3, I believed they were > successfully installed. > 3. After I typed "pgadmin3" in the terminal, it replied "Unable to > initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?" said gtk was not installed so... > 4. I looked up search here and Castet JQ Feb,10,2009 advised "$ export > DISPLAY=:0.0" > 5. I typed that command minus $, entered and root@server command line came > out so I believe it was successfully installed. > 5. After that, I typed "pgadmin3" in the terminal but it still replied > "Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly?" > > Please advise > > -- > View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-initialize-gtk-is-DISPLAY-set-properly-tp5112938p5112938.html > Sent from the PostgreSQL - pgadmin support mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > Sent via pgadmin-support mailing list (pgadmin-support@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-support