Redhat 7.0, python 2.0b2 and tcl-8.3.1-46 problem ...

[Arild Hansen]

Actually I tried to make a sym link, but without luck. So I guess I'll
have to wait for a RedHat 7.0 rpm release before continuing my work. In
the mean time I'll just sit here waiting :) 

Arild Hansen








On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, David Hughes wrote:

> I had a similar problem installing scotty, it was looking for
> libtcl8.0.so but all I had was /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so, all I did was
> symlink the 8.3 to 8.0 and it worked fine i.e.
> ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.so /usr/lib/libtcl8.0.so
> 
> HTH
> 
> In article <8rt2la$1rq$1 at news.uit.no>,
>   "Arild Hansen" <arildh at stud.cs.uit.no> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I try to install python 2.0b2 on a Redhat 7.0 distribution. When I
> installed
> > Redhat 7.0 I selected everything related to the Development sections
> > (packages). When trying to install Python 2.0b2 everything works
> fine. When
> > trying to install expat-1.1-1.i386.rpm everything works fine, BUT
> when I try
> > to install Tkinter-2.0-8.0.1.i386.rpm I get the following errors:
> >
> > error: failes dependenies:
> >
> >     libtcl8.0.so is needed by Tkinter-2.0-8.0.1
> >
> >     libtk8.0.so is needed by Tkinter-2.0-8.0.1
> >
> > So I install Tcl/Tk version 8.0.5 (tcl-8.0.5-35.i385.rpm) but then I
> get
> > several conflicts with the already installed (i.e. installed under the
> > installation of Redhat 7.0) tcl package being version tcl-8.3.1-46.
> In other
> > words, my system contains a new version of tcl that is not compatible
> /
> > recognized by python 2.0 beta 2 and when I try to install an older
> version
> > of tcl I am not allowd (yes, I know I can try rpm -U --force but this
> > conflicts with other packages depending on the new version of tcl).
> So, how
> > do I get python 2.0 beta 2 to work with tcl-8.3.1-46 ? Thx for all
> help,
> >
> > Arild Hansen
> >
> >
> 
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