From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 02:43:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA01219 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 02:43:14 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA01213 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 02:43:10 -0800 Received: from rks32.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA26198; Mon, 13 Mar 95 02:05:48 -0800 Received: by rks32.pcs.dec.com (Smail3.1.27.1 #16) id m0ro6zN-0005OqC; Mon, 13 Mar 95 11:04 MEZ Message-Id: To: vaughton%tower-unix.city-poly.ac.uk@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Cc: questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from James Vaughton of Mon, 13 Mar 95 01:00:05 GMT. Reply-To: gj@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Two problems: printer speed and tcl/tk install... HELP! Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 10:04:37 GMT From: "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 2.) I tried to install tcl/tk and XF and whenever I attempt to execute > the wish interpreter I get back an error stating unable to initialise > "tk_library" whatever that is... > > To install it I unpacked the distribution below /usr/local as the > docs seem to suggest. I also ensured that /usr/local/lib was set in > the ldconfig path. I assume you're talking about the package here. I ran into this problem also and it turned out that the permissions on the library directory were incorrect (r--r--r--, I think). Just do a +x on the directory, should fix the problem. I think the library is in /usr/local/lib/term. This should get fixed in the package, too. Gary J.