Trying to learn, Gimp failed

[William Davis]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Stephen Allred wrote:

> Hi - I know precious little of what I am doing; I thought I had read
> enough to get Gimp installed finally.  Wrong.  I think it got most of
> the way there and then I got this:
>
> --->  Cleaning tiff
> --->  Fetching gtk2
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned:
> You must install gtk2 with either the +quartz or +x11 variant  
> specified.
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp2 libgnomeui
> gnome-keyring gtk2 libgcrypt libgpg-error p5-xml-parser perl5.8
> libbonoboui dbus docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr libxml2 xmlto
> docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xsl getopt libxslt dbus-glib gconf intltool
> orbit2 libidl gnome-vfs gnome-mime-data howl neon openssl libbonobo  
> popt
> libglade2 libgnome esound audiofile libgnomecanvas gail libgtkhtml
> libmng autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext libtool m4 automake lcms
> librsvg libcroco libgsf libwmf poppler poppler-data py25-gtk py25- 
> cairo
> py25-numeric python25 py25-gobject
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> I have no idea what to do now; can anyone help?
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sudo port clean gtk2
sudo port install gtk2 +x11
then
sudo port install gimp
unless you dont want x11 but most ports wont build if you install  
+quartz

William Davis
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