Does the RPM for RH9 know about TCL/Tk

Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu> writes:

On 06/10/03 18:30, Morgan Hough wrote:

Sorry for the probable repeat post but I can only search the list up to
2002 (is there a better way?). 

Yes, see my search page below.

I am using the RH9 RPM from CRAN but
packages like AnalyzeFMRI say that tcltk is not found. Do I need to do
more to get Tk GUIs working on RH9 or does the RPM not have tcltk support
built in (should I compile from source). Thanks in advance.

There was in fact some discussion of this last month.  I am not
sure of the answer.  But I installed 1.7.0 from the RPM for RH 9,
and I got the same error message when trying to get Rcmdr to
work.  I did have tcl and tk installed.  Unfortunately, I did not
do a properly controlled experiment.  I first installed tcllib,
which was not installed originally.  (That didn't help, by
itself.)  Then I re-installed R _from source_ and then everything
worked.  But I did have the basic vanilla installation of RH 9,
and I did have this problem.  So you aren't the only one.  

I still don't know whether tcllib is necessary, and whether the
RPM itself installs different things depending on what is on the
system.  (I would assume not, but I'm not sure.)

It shouldn't, but the RPM may be different depending on what was
present on the system upon which it was built. Martyn may have been
building on a system where tcl/tk wasn't installed, or -- there's a
bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com on this -- the build was adversely
affected by incorrectness of the tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh scripts.

A fairly easy experiment would be to rebuild from the source RPM on
your own system. Since this builds an RPM, it will retain the
upgradability etc. of the "official" RPM. Could you try and tell us
whether the problem remains? (Don't forget that you need a bunch of
"-devel" packages installed.)