Re:

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On May 7, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Jay Vyas wrote:

> Hi guys : I have two weird problems.
>
> A few weeks ago, I followed the port installation instructions for
> Dia, and they worked. (http://dia.darwinports.com/)
>
> Then I noticed one day it miraculously was gone ?! I launched my
> terminal, typed dia, and nothing happened.!
>
> So I tried to reinstall dia from using the port instructions and got
> the following error
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 gtk-doc gnome-
> doc-utils py25-libxml2 py25-numeric rarian getopt intltool gnome-
> common jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros shared-mime-info
> tiff libart_lgpl popt
>
> What gives ?
>
> If dia is written in python, then shouldnt it be easy to run as a
> python app ?
>
> Please help ! My company has lots of design docs in dia and I'm
> desperate to access them again !

Dia is not written in Python, but in C. I'm not familiar with the  
darwinports setup and its problems, but you can always run a Linux  
such as Ubuntu to run Dia, that at least will allow you to access them  
again.

-Lars