GIMP and OpenOffice require different versions of perl

agnel_kurian

agnel_kurian

I have OpenOffice installed and am now trying to install GIMP. However, the installation fails because the latest OpenOffice requires perl-5.12.3 and GIMP requires perl-5.10.1_3.

How do I get around this?
 
I'm installing GIMP using:

# pkg_add -r gimp

Here are some of the errors:

Code: 
pkg_add: package 'perl-5.10.1_3' conflicts with perl-5.12.3
pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to force installation
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'perl-5.10.1_3' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'graphviz-2.26.3_3' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gutenprint-base-5.2.4_2' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package gutenprint-base-5.2.4_2 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gutenprint-ijs-5.2.4_2' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package gutenprint-base-5.2.4_2 !
pkg_add: could not find package gutenprint-ijs-5.2.4_2 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gutenprint-5.2.4_2' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'libopenraw-0.0.8_3' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package graphviz-2.26.3_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package libopenraw-0.0.8_3 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gegl-0.1.2_1' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package graphviz-2.26.3_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package libopenraw-0.0.8_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package gegl-0.1.2_1 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gimp-app-2.6.11,1' failed!
pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.10.1_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package graphviz-2.26.3_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package gutenprint-base-5.2.4_2 !
pkg_add: could not find package libopenraw-0.0.8_3 !
pkg_add: could not find package gegl-0.1.2_1 !
pkg_add: could not find package gimp-app-2.6.11,1 !
pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'gimp-gutenprint-5.2.4_2' failed!
 
Do you have PERL_VERSION=5.12.3 in /etc/make.conf? If you are installing a package, # pkg_add -f will force the install despite the warning. Gimp should run fine with the newer perl version.
 
It seems you're not finding the dependencies as well. You can set the environment variable PACKAGESITE to "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/", assuming you're running 8.x.
 
My /etc/make.conf reads as follows:
Code: 
# added by use.perl 2011-03-08 15:40:13
PERL_VERSION=5.12.3

I don't know how that got there. What does it do?

I'd like to avoid # pkg_add -f if possible. Is there a way to make either package use the other perl version?
 
agnel_kurian said:
My /etc/make.conf reads as follows:
# added by use.perl 2011-03-08 15:40:13
PERL_VERSION=5.12.3


I don't know how that got there. What does it do?
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It was added when you installed the perl port. The file /etc/make.conf provides settings for make builds. See [CMD="man"]MAKE.CONF(5)[/CMD].

I'd like to avoid # pkg_add -f if possible. Is there a way to make either package use the other perl version?
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The simplest solution that comes to mind is to set PACKAGESITE then do

# portmaster -P graphics/gimp.

If you don't have portmaster installed then run

# cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster && make install clean.
 
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