[R] Tcl\tk not supported on this system

[Marc Schwartz]

on 08/08/2008 02:05 PM Marc Schwartz wrote:
> on 08/08/2008 01:25 PM Michael Gormley wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Michael Gormley
>> <michael.gormley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your prompt responses.  I will take a look at the R 
>>> Installation
>>> and Administration manual.  Where can I obtain the tcl-devel and 
>>> tk-devel
>>> files?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
> 
> The answer may be a bit tricky and I will defer to others who may still 
> be running RHEL 3, as newer releases are now available and provide 
> differing functionality.
> 
> RHEL 3 was 'pre-yum' as far as I can see and back then (circa 2003) the 
> RH 'up2date' package manager was in use. New packages and updates were 
> made available via the Red Hat Network, which is a paid subscription 
> based service. This was around the time of RH9, as I recall, which used 
> a similar process until Fedora was born.
> 
> Presuming that you have 'root' access on this machine, you would use 
> something like:
> 
>   up2date tcl-devel tck-devel

ack...typo...that should be:

   up2date tcl-devel tk-devel


> as root from a console.


Sorry about that.

Marc