Installing GIMP

[Michael Hernandez]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:31 AM, David Orriss Jr wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2007 11:44 PM, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:51 AM, David Orriss Jr wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 2, 2007 8:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 2, 2007, at 08:15, Isabella Thomm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If I try to install gimp, I get a linkage error with libglade2:
>>>>>
>>>>> ld: duplicate symbol _g_bit_nth_lsf in .libs/glade-xml.o  
>>>>> and .libs/
>>>>> glade-init.o
>>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea how to circumvent this problem?
>>>>
>>>> That's this bug, which I thought was fixed but has apparently been
>>>> reopened:
>>>>
>>>> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13006
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This bug is also jumping out a biting me now on a new, clean install
>>> of Macports on Leopard..
>>>
>>> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13160
>>>
>>> Getting GIMP working again is really getting painful... *sigh*
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> The current problem with orbit2 is an additional (different) bug of
>> the same type as the glib2 problem -- there is a patch but Im waiting
>> to hear from the patch authour before I try it.  If you have a clean
>> instalation you have nothing to loose by trying it though.  :) good
>> luck and let us know if you do.
>>
>
> Naw.. I'm getting burned out trying.  I'll use GIMP in XP under
> Parallels and just buy more RAM so I can keep XP running in the
> Parallels system more often without impacting my other work.  It's
> just gone beyond being with the trouble now... :|  It'll be slower but
> at least I can use something until someone figures out all this..
>
>
>
>

I'm using GIMP on my ubuntu boxes (one at home, one at work) whenever  
I can. Maybe one day they'll be a native GIMP... (hey a guy can dream  
right?) Hmm I was thinking of getting VMWare fusion... maybe I could  
run the windows version with fusion?


--Mike H