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From: mohamad@nntp.tfs.com (Bring the mountain to me)
Subject: Re: Problems with Tk binary installation.
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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:31:38 GMT
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James E. J. Lovell (jlovell@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi,
:    I'm running version 2.0 on my PC and have been having trouble
: getting Tk to work. Whenever I try to execute a Tk application 
: such as wish I get the following message:

: Tcl_AppInit failed: can't read "tk_library": no such variable
: % 

:   I've read the man pages and they say that setting the environment
: variable TK_LIBRARY (which is set in one of the configuration files
: when installing from scratch) will override whatever it is currently
: set to. I tried this but experienced the same problem. 

:   I installed Tk and Tcl using the pkg_add program from the 2.0-RELEASE
: distribution. Both packages were installed in the default directories.
: I guess the next thing to try is an full installation, but does anyone
: have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong?

You need to install the itcl_1_5.tgz, then execute /usr/local/bin/itcl_wish
instead of wish.  At least that`s what I had to do to get it working.

: Cheers,
: Jim.

: --
: Jim Lovell, Radioastronomy PhD student, University of Tasmania, Australia.
: email: jim.lovell@phys.utas.edu.au


mohamad <mohamad@tfs.com>