woop, sorry for the short reply in last mail. Yes, I did install python gtk via MacPorts. It is actually kind of easy right now, just use port install py-gtk2, then all set :D As to recompiling gtk2, it seems like that the quartz variant on MacPorts introduces less problems. thanks for your reply, -Tim On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Tim Chen <ht.timchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, > > On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Akkana Peck wrote: > > Tim Chen writes: > > Note that one has to install gtk2 using command below to avoid some weird > dependency problems > > Most Linux people have to recompile gtk2 (and its dependencies) to > build GIMP now too. > > ImportError: could not import pygtk > > Did you build python-gtk? It's a separate package, with its own > dependency set. > > Last time I watched someone try to build python-gtk from Macports, > it turned out to be a lot easier just to download the tarballs and > build and install them by hand. Macports wanted to bring in all > kinds of crazy dependencies, including recompiling X and three > different versions of Perl, all of them built from source. But > maybe they've fixed the dependencies since then. > > ...Akkana > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer