ASTK Throws Error Msg. When Opened

Hi Claus,

Okay, I'll try that -- or actually, I already did last night, but unfortunately the Tcl/tk packages available for Puppy Linux are at version 8.5, not 8.4. So I tried creating symlinks labeled 8.4 to the 8.5 execuatables and libs. Probably I missed some, or that isn't a good idea. I basically got no response to atsk --help. So I removed all of the mods I had made, to try to think of a better way.

What confuses and surprises me is that Tcl/tk and wish8.4 are already included in the Salome-Meca binary package under prerequis/. Surely it was meant to be run from there? Does the postinstall script try to install them to /usr?

The astk script calling wish8.4 explicitly expects it to be in /usr/bin -- how would it get there? Salome Meca 4 is supposedly a binary package that is self-sufficient. That's partly why it is so big. It seems to contain Qt3, Tcl/tk and, I believe even Python. So why are scripts looking for executables in /usr? If these are needed, shouldn't the binary package come with a list of needed dependencies?

Well, anyway, I'll try to work around all this by manually copying the contents of the Salome Meca Tck/tk folder to the appropriate /usr locations.

I just have a feeling that something small is broken -- like some script method that tells astk to search its own prerequis directories for needed dependencies -- that would make it truly self-sufficient.

Any ideas about this?

Woohoo, getting somewhere.......

I temporarily added all the subdirectories of SALOME/SALOME4/Prerequis/ to the path via instructions found elsewhere on the internet:

DIRS=`echo /foo/bar/baz/*`
export PATH=$PATH:${DIRS// /:}

That adds subdirectories of /foo/bar/baz/ to the PATH environment variable

I then ran ./astk but still got the missing /usr/bin/wish8.4 error message.

Looking more closely in my /usr/bin, I found I already had wish 8.5 there. So I edited the astk script to change 8.4 to 8.5 and all of a sudden, ./astk --help worked!

I'm looking at the results of ./astk --check now, and will report back what I find. I think we're close to a solution........<br /><br />Post edited by: Steve Rednond, at: 2009/10/22 06:38

astk --check was reporting that it couldn't find .astkrc_salome2009.1/config_serveurs and prefs.

When I checked, the folder and files were in fact there, but config_serveurs was an empty text file and prefs had _VIDE in practically all entries. I also found that rsh and rcp executables were missing from my computer.

I decided to leave Puppy Linux 4.1.2 and boot into Ubuntu, and install Salome Meca there to see if I could get it to run on a different OS.

After a false start in Ubuntu, when the program crashed immediately, I downloaded proprietary NVIDIA restricted drivers and enabled them. Salome Meca worked well then, and I was able to get astk running -- First time I had seen the interface!!

I then looked at the config_serveurs and prefs there and was able to see what they should look like on a working installation. I also looked at the hosts file.

Then I rebooted into Puppy Linux, installed rcp and rsh, made a slight modification to the Hosts file, copied the working config-serveurs and prefs files from Ubuntu to Puppy, and modified them to suit the new environment -- mostly changed the terminal program and editors.

I rebooted, ran Salome Meca, and SUCCESS!! I was able to get the astk interface running.

ps. I also created a symlink in usr/bin between wish8.4 and 8.5. I haven't had to set the path for the prerequis directory since then, so that seems to be the only change needed there,

Thanks to all who helped -- I couldn't have got through this without the suggestions for where to look.

--Steve<br /><br />Post edited by: Steve Rednond, at: 2009/10/22 06:46