[GRASS-dev] wish problem

[Martin Bratschi]

Hi,
Thank you very much for the information. I will look into that.
Best regards,
Martin




2009/11/11 William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>

> Since you mention frameworks, I assume you mean my package.
>
> I bundled TclTk within the GRASS 6.3 application.  It's X11-based, unlike
> later versions where I use an external Aqua TclTk.  You shouldn't have to
> set any GRASS variables for it to work.
>
> I haven't looked at GRASS 6.3 in a long time, so I don't know what might be
> wrong.  Do you have X11 installed?  It's an optional install on your OSX
> system disk (you'll need it for *any* kind of map display in GRASS, not just
> TclTk).
>
> You could try GRASS 6.4.  It's quite solid.  I moved the Tiger builds to my
> download archives page, and won't be making any more packages for Tiger (and
> certainly not for GRASS 6.3), but it still works.
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Martin Bratschi wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> > I am very new to GRASS and also command based programs (only some
> experience with R) but very much interested in getting into GIS and using it
> for my studies.
> >
> > I have downloaded GRASS 6.3.0 onto my Mac (OS X 10.4.11) and also
> included all necessary (as far as I can tell) frameworks.
> >
> > However, when I start GRASS I get the following error:
> > WARNING: The wish command does not work as expected!
> > Please check your GRASS_Wish environment variable.
> >
> > I have been reading online trying to solve this problem and have
> done/found the following:
> >
> > $ which wish
> > gives me:
> > /usr/bin/wish
> >
> > $ wish
> > Opens a small window named Wish Shell (About Tcl & TK: Tcl 8.4.7 & Tk
> 8.4.7).
> >
> > I did (in Darwin):
> > GRASS_WISH=wish8.4
> > export GRASS_WISH=usr/bin/wish8.4
> >
> >
> > After all of this the error when starting GRASS is still there.
> > Would you be able to help with this?
> > Please let me know if you would require any further information about my
> system.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help.
> > Best regards,
> > Martin
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>
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