[Paraview] Newbie Installing ParaView on a 64 bit gentoo machine

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Thu Mar 9 11:57:44 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:31 -0600, msh wrote:
> I compiled and installed ParaView on a Machine running the 64 bit version of 
> Gentoo linux.  I get the following error when I run ParaView:
> 
> > > bash-3.00$paraview
> > > ParaView error: InitializeTcl failed
> > > Tcl_Init error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> > > directories:
> > >     /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/Linux/ParaView/lib/tcl8.4
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/Linux/lib/tcl8.4
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/Linux/ParaView/library
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/Linux/library
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/Linux/tcl8.4.5/library
> > > /home/msh/documents/Installers/tcl8.4.5/library /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> > >

I saw this and the variable below helped.  I have no idea if it's the
correct thing to do.  

export TCL_LIBRARY=/home/khobbs/kitware/ParaView_BUILD_MPI/lib/tcl8.4/
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