[GRASSLIST:2625] Re: tcltkgrass startup problem

[Ben Logan]

Mark,

At a shell prompt, type "which wish" (without the quotes).  It should
say something like /usr/bin/wish.  If it gives a message like

which: no wish in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/var/qmail/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/ben/gnuplot/bin)

then the binary is probably called something like wish8 or wish8.0, or
you need to add a directory to your PATH.  If it shows you a path, I'm
not sure what your problem is.  The rest of my message assumes that
'which' couldn't find wish.

Try this (the '#' means you should be logged in as root--don't type
it):

# find / -iname "wish*" 2>/dev/null

If that doesn't turn up anything, you don't have any version of wish
installed.  If find returns an entry for something like 'wish8.0' but
no 'wish', then you need to create a symbolic link.  For example, if
find returned '/usr/bin/wish8.0', run

# ln -s /usr/bin/wish8.0 /usr/bin/wish

That should fix it.  If you do get an entry for wish, but it isn't in
a bin directory (it should be in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin),
then you simply need to add it's directory to your path.  If you don't
know how to do that, email me personally and I'll step you through it.
 (I'm not trying to insult your intelligence, I'm just not sure how
much you know about Linux. :)

HTH,
Ben

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:04:23PM -0800, Wyco, Mark wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to set up Grass5 on an intell based PC.  I am using
> Dragonware Linux.  
> 
> I have no problem installing the program and opening up the Spearfish demo
> maps using command lines from the terminal in KDE.  My problem is that I
> would like to get tcltkgrass to run.  Unfortunately when I try to start it I
> get the message "wish not found"  I tried the precompiled binaries, and I
> tried compiling my own binary with the same results.  I downloaded the
> wish8.0 library package and no luck.  
> 
> I tried Grass4.3 and when I tried to run tcltkgrass the error message that I
> did not have permission to execute wish.  
> 
> I am assuming the problem is in how I have linux set up on my machine, but I
> am not familiar with the OS to know what I am doing wrong.  Can anyone help
> me?  
> 

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