[Paraview] Newbie question

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi;

In addition you may have to set your enviroment variables 'TCL_LIBRARY'
and 'TCLLIBPATH'. 'TCL_LIBRARY' should be set to the location of
init.tcl - something like:
TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/local/ParaView/lib/paraview-2.2/TclTk/lib/tcl8.4/

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Kent Eschenberg wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Well, for starters, it would help if you mentioned what system and version
> you are using. The directory you mentioned suggests you are not using
> ParaView under Windows. Linux? UNIX? Which version of the operating system?
> And which version of ParaView? All that is good stuff for any request for
> help.
>
> The mistake *I* always make is to run "make" and then forget to run "make
> install". By default this will put things in a public area like /usr/local
> so you might need su privileges.
>
> Kent
>
> --On Tuesday, February 21, 2006 04:23:26 PM -0700 Eric Greenwade
> <Eric.Greenwade at inl.gov> wrote:
>
> > I'll apologize for this one in advance. I had run the precompiled binary
> > for long enough I decided to try to compile a local version. Everything
> > 'seemed' to go just fine. However, after installation I get the following
> > error when I try to execute the newly compiled paraview:
> >
> > hermes:~> 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/lib/tcl8.4 /lib/tcl8.4 /home/library
> > /library /tcl8.4.5/library /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4
> >
> > Sure enough none of the directories listed exist on this machine.
> > However, the init.tcl file exists in almost a dozen other locations on
> > the box. I'm sure this is an easy one. If someone would give me a (kind)
> > pointer I would greatly appreciate it. (some cmake option?)
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > -eric
>

Cheers

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