On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 06:23:57AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > On 04/21/2018 04:22 PM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:46:37PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > I have installed a GUI for some of my modeling programs > > > (http://www.quimica.urv.cat/~pujadas/BDT) on my Debian Stretch platform. > > > > > > While there were no warning or error messages during the installation > > > when I > > > attempt execution I get the following: > > > > > > comp@AbNormal:~/Apps/BDT$ ./bdt > > > /usr/local/gromacs/lib:/opt/mopac > > > ./bdt.exec: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so.0: cannot > > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > comp@AbNormal:~/Apps/BDT$ > > > > > > The supposedly missing file is in /home/comp/Apps/BDT/tools/tcl-tk8.4/lib. > > > How do I go about solving this problem? > > > > > I'll bet that bdt is a shell script and it does some trickery with > > setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Can you post the contents of bdt (assuming it > > is a shell script and not too long)? Further, I suspect that bdt.exec is > > the actual binary. If that is the case, can you post the output of > > `ldd ./bdt.exec`? > > > > Since tcl8.4 was last available in jessie [0], you most likely have an > > incomplete application distribution. Or it depends on you installing > > tcl8.4 from system packages and you will need to grab a jessie package > > and install it on your system, or possibly rebuild it (in case the > > dependencies don't work out exactly correct). > > > > Regards, > > > > -Roberto > > > > [0] > > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie&searchon=contents&keywords=libtcl8.4.so.0 > > > Thanks for your reply. The file is: > > #!/bin/sh > > BDT=$PWD > export BDT > TOOLS=$BDT/tools > PATH=$BDT:$TOOLS:$PATH > > if [ `whereis wish | wc -w` -eq 1 ] > then > echo "You do not have TCL-TK installed" > echo "The BDT-installation of TCL-TK will be used" > > TCLTK=$TOOLS/tcl-tk8.4 > > PATH=$TCLTK:$PATH > > # FOR general UNIX > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TCLTK:$TCLTK/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > # FOR tcl-tk libraries > TCL_LIBRARY=$TCLTK/lib/tcl8.4 > TK_LIBRARY=$TCLTK/lib/tk8.4 > export TCL_LIBRARY TK_LIBRARY > fi > echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > #./bdt.tcl > ./bdt.exec > It appears that my supposition was correct. You will need to find a way to obtain, build, or install tcl8.4 for your system. Aside from the possibilities I mentioned in my initial reply, you could set up a jessie chroot, which would have tcl8.4 available as a standard package, and run your application from within that.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
