Error installing gimp

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 21:32, Jeffrey Safire wrote:

> 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?

It already tells you how to fix it:

> --->  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

You need:

$ sudo port -f activate p5-pathtools

Then you can proceed to trying to install gimp again.