Briefly, How to install gimp on Mac OS X (Tiger)(PPC):updated on April 3, 2008EDIT:Of course, feel free to comment and share your experiences with my howto.(If you’re already a macports user and upgrading from Gimp 2.2.14 to 2.2.16 or newer r)Unfortunately, it’s harder than just opening a.DMG file and moving it to your Applications folder – familiarity with the command line is essential. Here we go.1. Make sure you have X11 installed check out a page on the apple site –OR (better yet), get out your Tiger Install disks and the x11 page should be on there.2.
MAC OS X 10.4.6 Tiger (Retail DVD).dmg 5ebb7dda87 permalink May 31, 2008 Dear Brad, Thank you very much for this post. Using grey discs from another Mac model is probably why its not working for you. I would use nero and burn ISO to DVD image, it should burn, then boot up, provided of course, you change in the bios the CD to boot first!
Install macports at3. Once installed, follow found at the macports site, but provided a link since it’s not easy to find4. Run the follow command to get any updates to the program to ensure all of the programs (I believe Macports installs a couple programs by default) are up to date:sudo port -v selfupdate5. Fetch the gimp package and install all of its dependent packages additional software that it requires in order to be run:This can take a long time i.e. Three to four hours on my iBook G4 with 512 MB ram.sudo port install gimp26. As the guide mentions, make sure that it installed fine:port installedIf you think you’re all good here, nope. This is where I first got stumped.
if you open up your command prompt and just type in: gimpyou get this response:GIMP could not initialize the graphical user interface.Make sure a proper setup for your display environment exists7. Instead, you have to use X11. X11 is located in the Utilities, under the Application Folder.8. Open up X119. Then, type in the following command:/opt/local/bin/gimpThe Gimp should now open, all fine and dandy:)You may want an updated version of GIMP. Even if it’s updated on the gimp website on gimp.org, the macports edition may not be updated.10. To update the list of the most current macports packages, issue:sudo port selfupdate11.
If you want a list of what packages are outdated and have upgrades available, just issue this command: (You can skip #11 and go straight to #12 if you don’t want to see what has been updated).port outdated12. Then, issue this command to update the outdated software:sudo port upgrade outdated13. You’re updated:) Go to Step #9 and start up the GIMP.Edit: After being away from my computer for 6 months, I issued a sudo port -v selfupdate (Step #10) and sudo port upgrade outdated (Step #12).
Macports and its packages completed its updates after 6 hours with no errors reported. When I issued the command to start up the GIMP (Step #9), “no command could be found.” So, I noticed that Macports had created a folder with a GIMP icon inside in the /Applications Folder. I opened that up and the program instantly crashed.I decided to try out the and read and had no problems installing it.
It’s like any Drag and Drop.DMG application file. I installed it and no problems!Sources.
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