On 01/24/2013 12:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> ________________________________
>> From: András Murányi <
muranyia@gmail.com>
>> To: Ed Kelly <
morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk>
>> Cc: "
pd-list@iem.at" <
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>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 release candidate 1: last chance to report your bugs
>>
>>
>> You shall be able to choose tcl 8.5 with:
>> sudo update-alternatives --config wish
>>
>> Then, did this error prevent Pd from loading? Afaicr, plugins' errors shall not block Pd.
>
>
> Right, but the question is whether Pd-extended should go ahead and require tcl/tk 8.5.
> The ttk requirement of search-plugin.tcl-- which loads by default in the next Pd-extended--
> is one reason. Avoiding two messages in each "Fonts are ugly/weird/broken" thread is
> another:
>
> User-to-entire-mailinglist: Font problem x y z...
> Answer-back-to-entire-mailinglist: Are you using tcl/tk 8.5?
> User-to-entire-mailinglist: Yes so what next / No but now I am thanx
>
>
> Much less likely with tcl/tk 8.5 requirement:
> User-to-entire-mailinglist: In 2006 I set up my Pd box and stepped out for a bit
>
> to go to medical school. Now I updated Pd and suddenly there's this error.
>
> What happened?
>
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>>
>> András
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ed Kelly <
morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Don't know if this has been mentioned before...
>>>
>>> On Ubuntu Lucid (10.04LTS) Pd-extended-0.43 deb from the
launchpad.net repository.
>>> Pd won't start properly in that it complains that it need Tcl/Tk8.5.
>>> Tcl/Tk8.5 is installed, but so is Tcl/Tk8.4.
>>>
>>> (Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: version conflict for package "Tk": have 8.4, need 8.5
>>>
>>> while executing
>>> "package require Tk 8.5"
>>> ("uplevel" body line 10)
>>> invoked from within
>>> "uplevel #0 $tclcode"FAILED TO LOAD /usr/lib/pd-extended/extra/search-plugin/search-plugin.tcl
>>>
>>> So I tried changing the symlinks in /usr/lib to point to 8.5. This
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2013-01-24 09:45 libtk.a -> libtk8.5.a
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2013-01-24 09:45 libtk.so ->
libtk8.5.so
>>>
>>> Still no good.
>>> Could Pd-extended be made to force the use of the 8.5 libs?
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
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