still can't get gimp to work under macports....

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 6, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:

> 
> On 07/05/2012, at 9:56 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> dbus is a way for programs to talk to one another. For that to work, dbus-session must be loaded, but by selecting the no_startupitem variant, you've instructed MacPorts to not provide a means to load that program. So that won't work.
>> 
>> "sudo port selfupdate" to make sure you have the latest port definitions in which the recent dbus problems were resolved. Then "sudo port install dbus" to reinstall dbus with its default variants (i.e. not using the +no_startupitem variant). Then follow the instructions it will print for loading dbus-session. Then programs like gimp that use dbus should work.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot the attachment to my last email.

What version or port are you running?

Do you have "startupitem.install no" in prefix/etc/macports/macports.conf?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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