Help with installing Gimp

**kiat** · 04-09-2005

Hi,

I'm new to freebsd. After a couple of failed installs, I finally got it up and running. It's so cool and I like it so much.

I was trying to install Gimp through ports and got some error after the install had run for something like 30-45 mins. Here's the output of where the installed ended:

Code:

checking GMODULE_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv
checking if GLib is version 2.7.0 or newer... no
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... &#40;cached&#41; yes
checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for pkg-config... &#40;cached&#41; /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.4... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GTK+ or finding the wrong
*** version of GTK+. If it is not finding GTK+, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
configure&#58; error&#58; Test for GTK+ failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.
===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please direct the output of the failure of the make command to a file, and
then feed that file to the gnomelogalyzer, available from
http&#58;//www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh, which will diagnose the problem
and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot solve
the problem, report the problem to the FreeBSD GNOME team at gnome@FreeBSD.org,
and attach "/usr/ports/graphics/gimp/work/gimp-2.2.4/config.log" and the
output of the failure of the make command. Also, it might be a good idea to
provide an overview of all packages installed on your system &#40;e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`&#41;.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp.
www# cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp

I'm totally clueless what to do next. The install had ended prematurely at different points but I was able to fix those by deinstalling (using make deinstall) the outdated package and reinstalling (using make reinstall) it. But the current one where I'm stuck doesn't seem to have anything to do with an outdated package.

Please help and thanks in anticipation

**sdousley** · 04-09-2005

Look to me like you need ton install GTK+ ov version >= 2.4.4.

**kiat** · 04-10-2005

Thanks, sdousley

I got it to work just today. I deleted the old installed GTK and re-installed using ports. After that, I did another make install for Gimp and the installation went successfully.

**sdousley** · 04-10-2005

That's cool.

If u ever get errors like that again, just as a pointer.... usuallt the last line that looks similar to:

checking for <application name>.....

is the application you need to install to get it to work... but if u get this again and aren't sure, feel free to posta gain

**kiat** · 04-10-2005

Hey, sdousley

I'm slowly getting a hang of things.

Tried to install clamav (anti-virus) and ran into some problems. clamav required a higher version of libidn and so I deinstalled the existing version of libidn and reinstalled the newer version.

After that, I could not run kde and related applications because those depended on the deleted version of libidn.

So I deleled the KDE and reinstalled it via ftp.

Everything is working fine now and I've a newer version of KDE

I still don't have clamav but that's okay.

It has been a very exciting learning journing so far.

**sdousley** · 04-10-2005

linux is an exciting journey.

The reason KDE stopped working is because when u installed it with the old version it would have created certain files.... then when u updated, these files would have changed, so KDE didn't know where they were, then the reinstall used the new versions of the files, meaning it worked

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