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Vrushank Doshi
Vrushank Doshi

Reputation: 2608

How to install expect and tcl on linux RHEL server 6.5

I am new to linux and i have few expect scripts to execute. I read few blogs on how to install expect and tcl. The command i am trying is

sudo yum install expect
sudo yum install tcl

I am getting 

No package expect available
No package tcl available

It seems RHEL should have tcl and expect prebuilt but this is not the case in my version of linux.

How should i proceed from here ? Help will be highly appreciated..Thanks :)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 51957

Answers (6)

Sharad
Sharad

Reputation: 10602

Try ActiveTcl from ActiveState:

The trusted Tcl distribution for Windows, Linux and Mac, pre-bundled with top Tcl/Tk modules.

ActiveTcl includes a version of Tcl and popular packages, pre-compiled and ready to use

https://www.activestate.com/products/tcl/

Upvotes: 0

Sybil
Sybil

Reputation: 2592

From Installing Tcl/Tk

Tcl is a dynamic programming language, while Tk is a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit. They provide a powerful and easy-to-use platform for developing cross-platform applications with graphical interfaces

On RHEL9 you can do:

dnf install -y tcl tk expect

You get those versions

rpm -qa | grep -i tcl
tcl-8.6.10-7.el9.x86_64

rpm -qa | grep -w tk
tk-8.6.10-9.el9.x86_64

rpm -qa | grep expect
expect-5.45.4-15.el9.x86_64

Upvotes: 0

mdoldan
mdoldan

Reputation: 11

Install the development tools: yum groupinstall "Development tools"

then

./configure make make install

should be good to go.

Upvotes: 1

r00t-err0r
r00t-err0r

Reputation: 184

You can add EPEL Repo

On 32-Bit -
# rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

On 64-Bit -
# rpm -Uvh http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

and then you can use yum to install.
Also you can compile from source or get from ActiveState like in previous answers.

Upvotes: 0

Vrushank Doshi
Vrushank Doshi

Reputation: 2608

I tried the following links and it worked for me. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/tcl.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/expect.html

Upvotes: 0

Krish
Krish

Reputation: 31

Have you tried this? In this way you will be able to compile from source.

1) Download the expect package from the below link

                    http://sourceforge.net/projects/expect/

2) Install the required dependecy packages "Tcl/Tk" language toolkit

                    # yum install tcl

3) Install the "expect" package using the below commands

        # tar -zxvf expectx.xx.tar.gz
        # ./configure
        # make
        # make install

Upvotes: 0

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