Can't install Gimp on 10.5.1

Michael E. Shamgochian shamgochian at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 14:09:24 PST 2007


On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:44 PM, paul beard wrote:
>
>
> On 11/26/07, Michael E. Shamgochian <chagrinson at gmail.com> wrote:  
> Strange! This is pretty much a clean install of MacPorts - I've tried
> reinstalling MacPorts to see if that would solve the problem. Right
> now, I'm just getting this from port installed:
>
> The following ports are currently installed:
>    par2 @0.4_1+darwin_9 (active)
>    unrar @3.7.8_0 (active)
>
> (I installed those two with no trouble.)
>
> odd. Not sure how you picked out two ports that don't depend on  
> gettext, expat, or libiconv ;-)
>
> to go back to the top of this thread, gimp2 has library dependencies  
> on:
>         aalib
>         curl
>         libart_lgpl
>         libexif
>         libgnomeui
>         libgtkhtml
>         libmng
>         librsvg
>         libwmf
>         p5-xml-parser
>         poppler
>         py25-gtk
>
>
> and those all have dependencies on other things. So it should take  
> some time to install.
>
> Why you were seeing all those messages eludes me. Want to try  
> installing gimp2 again?
>
> try:
>
> port -d install gimp2 | tee /tmp/logfile.txt so you get the entrails  
> to peruse later.
>
> -- 
> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
> <paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>

It seems to be working now (compiling stuff), after issuing that  
command. I'm not sure what was going wrong before, except that I was  
trying to install gimp before, not gimp2 (but they seem to be mostly  
the same)...


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