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Mathew
Mathew

Reputation: 1450

installing expect for bash

I have downloaded expect (from http://www.tucows.com/preview/8223/Expect) and am having troubles installing it. I generally have troubles installing programs so a very simply explanation would be apreciated. I am a mac user incase that is of importance. Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14574

Answers (2)

Hielke Walinga
Hielke Walinga

Reputation: 2845

For anyone stumbling upon this.

You can also simply install expect with homebrew.sh

brew install expect

(http://braumeister.org/repos/Homebrew/homebrew-core/formula/expect)

Disclaimer: I am actually not a mac user.

Upvotes: 9

Arun George
Arun George

Reputation: 1219

Installation steps are explained at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/expect.html

To Install Expect

1) Download Expect (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expect/expect5.45.tar.gz)

2) Untar the package

tar -xvf expect5.45.tar.gz

3) Login as root and Install Expect by running the following commands inside expect5.45:

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --with-tcl=/usr/lib     \
            --enable-shared         \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --with-tclinclude=/usr/include &&
make

make install &&
ln -svf expect5.45/libexpect5.45.so /usr/lib

To Install TCL

1) Download Expect (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.6.5-src.tar.gz)

2) Untar thhe package

tar -xf ../tcl8.6.5-html.tar.gz --strip-components=1

3) Install Tcl by running the following commands:

export SRCDIR=`pwd` &&

cd unix &&

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit) &&
make &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix#/usr/lib#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR#/usr/include#"  \
    -i tclConfig.sh               &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/tdbc1.0.4#/usr/lib/tdbc1.0.4#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.4/generic#/usr/include#"    \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.4/library#/usr/lib/tcl8.6#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.4#/usr/include#"            \
    -i pkgs/tdbc1.0.4/tdbcConfig.sh                        &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/itcl4.0.4#/usr/lib/itcl4.0.4#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl4.0.4/generic#/usr/include#"    \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl4.0.4#/usr/include#"            \
    -i pkgs/itcl4.0.4/itclConfig.sh                        &&

unset SRCDIR

4) Login as root and execute the following. 

make install &&
make install-private-headers &&
ln -v -sf tclsh8.6 /usr/bin/tclsh &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libtcl8.6.so

Upvotes: 2

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