Trouble installing gimp

[aurora]

Hello,

I've tried to install GIMP by using

pkg_add -r gimp

and it failed somewhere in between (most probably as a result of poor Internet connection) saying that it needed boost-1.37.0
Later, I tried installing boost using the ports, but at the 'make' stage (compiling) it went out of swap space and failed (because my machine had only 128MB of RAM) Later I upgraded to 256MB RAM and retried pkg_add -r gimp and it gave the following error:

...
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/All/boost-1.37.0.tbz... Done.
pkg_add: package 'boost-1.37.0' conflicts with boost-python-1.37.0

pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting packages or -f to force Installation

pkg_add: pkg_add dependency of 'boost-1.37.0' failed!

pkg_delete gimp
pkg_delete boost
pkg_delete boost-1.37.0

all gave "no such package [package name] installed" error.

pkg_delete boost-python-1.37.0 says something like "it cannot
be deinstalled because it's a dependency of the following: KDE, etc."

So, how should I go on with the installation of gimp?

Thanks.

 

[SirDice]

pkg_delete gimp
pkg_delete boost
pkg_delete boost-1.37.0

all gives no such package [package name] installed/

Use pkg_delete -x

pkg_delete boost-python-1.37.0 says something like "it cannot
be deinstalled because it's a dependency of the following: KDE, etc."

You can force a deinstall by using pkg_delete -f but be advised it may break something.

 

[aurora]

Hello,

I have used the option of pkg_delete -f boost-python-1.37.0 and deleted all related to "python". I guess the problem stemmed from me desparately trying to install gimp after the network failure and I remember having used
# make under /boost directory and that must have installed the conflicting packages.

Now, it's alright and I have finally installed gimp with no trouble.

Thanks for the help.