Error installing gimp

[Jeffrey Safire]

I tried to install gimp, but it took a few hours and many packages  
were installed.  Is this correct?  I scrolled back to the beginning  
of the terminal window and never did see an installation of gimp.   
The following error messages appeared before the script quit:

--->  Building p5-pathtools with target all
--->  Staging p5-pathtools into destroot
You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it  
needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port
--->  Installing p5-pathtools 3.25_0
--->  Activating p5-pathtools 3.25_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level/auto/Cwd/Cwd.bs is being used by the  
active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the - 
f flag to force the activation.
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp-app gimp2  
libgnomeui libbonoboui libbonobo p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools popt  
libgnome esound audiofile gnome-vfs gconf gnome-mime-data howl neon  
openssl libgnomecanvas gail libglade2 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 gimp-jp2 openjpeg gimp-user-manual gtk-nodoka- 
engine coreutils gutenprint icns-gimp macclipboard-gimp macfile-gimp  
ufraw exiv2 xsane sane-backends libusb
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


Any suggestions here?

Thanks,
Jeff
iBook G4, OSX 10.4.10,  macports 1.52,   X11 r1.1,  XFree86 r4.4.0
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