[GRASS5] Re: installing GRASS without fink

[William K]

So, how are you getting Tcl/Tk Aqua to work with GRASS?  According to 
the GRASS developers, my experience, and the experiences of others, 
GRASS NEEDS an X-Windows build of Tcl/Tk.  Unless you use OpenOSX's 
GRASS (which is at 5.0.2 right now).

Tcl/Tk for X11 is no big trouble to build.

If there are patches you're applying to GRASS to use Tcl/Tk Aqua, I'm 
sure there are many who would like to know, and maybe they can be 
incorporated in the GRASS source.


On Dec 13, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:

>
> On Dec 13, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
>
>>
>> On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 12:01 PM, 
>> grass5-request at grass.itc.it wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't like using fink unless I **have** to. Otherwise, I end up 
>>> with multiple versions of applications and libraries, and conflicts 
>>> between versions. For example, if I already have python2.3 on my 
>>> system, I don't need fink installing another one. I have installed 
>>> GRASS from cvs on my powerbook without any use of fink, so it is not 
>>> necessary.
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> How did you install tcltk? Did you install it from source or do you 
>> have a place to find binaries? This is the only reason I **need** 
>> fink for installing GRASS, though there are some other things it is 
>> quite handy for.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> There are pretty good binaries here:
>
> http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/TclTkAqua/
>
> I originally installed them for use with python, but they work just 
> fine with GRASS (both 5.0 and 5.7). I recommend the "batteries 
> included" (BI) packages.
>
> C.
>
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