Gimp Error

[William Davis]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Mack Johnson wrote:

> trying to install gimp and I get this error. Can you tell me how to  
> fix this?
>
> 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: 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
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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did you try sudo port -f install gimp ? I think that will pass the -f  
along. if not try sudo port -f install p5-pathways @3.25_0

you may need to sudo port clean gimp and sudo port clean p5-pathways  
@3.25 first