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

[David Hughes]

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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