[vtkusers] can't find package vtk while executing a .tcl file

[Wes Turner]

You can also set the environment variable TCLLIBPATH to the location of the
pkgIndex.tcl file prior to executing the tcl file.

- Wes

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Peter Wainwright <
prw at ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 06:27 -0500, Hua-Mei Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     I am new to this mailing list and have a very basic question that
> > probably has been asked before. But, how do I modify a .tcl file such
> > that it can be executed without any error like "can't find package vtk
> > while executing "package require VTK" "?  In other word, I think my
> > question is how to set path in a .tcl file. Thank you.
>
> I think you need to modify the variable "auto_path".  If you execute
> "puts $auto_path" in tclsh, you will see the default value, for me it is
>
> % puts $auto_path
> /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4 /usr/lib /usr/local/lib/tcltk
> /usr/local/share/tcltk /usr/lib/tcltk /usr/share/tcltk
>
> Just add the path to the directory which contains the pkgIndex.tcl file
> for VTK, e.g.
>
> set auto_path "$auto_path /xxxxxx/lib/vtk-5.2"
>
> Peter
>
> >
> >
> > Chen
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