No application when installing gimp2

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Feb 6 03:16:16 PST 2010


On 2010-2-6 21:59 , Russe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to macports and run into a problem when installing Gimp on my
> MacBook Pro 2.2 with OS X 10.5.8.
> 
> First I installed macports itself and had no problems with.
> Because I don't like X11 I tried gimp2 with the variant no_x11 and
> quartz, therefore I used the command
> sudo port install gimp2 +no_x11 +quartz
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/gimp2/Portfile
> 
> 5 or 6 hours later the installation has been finished but there was no
> gimp application at my macports folder.
> Because I changed network connection during installation I removed all
> the stuff again with command
> sudo port -f uninstall installed
> Next installation ended as well without the application at the macports
> folder :(
> 
> Do I need to install gimp as well or should be gimp2 enough? Is there
> any other installation needed to get Gimp running without X11?

Having a native UI and being installed as an application bundle are two
independent things. Did you try the executable that was installed?

- Josh


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