Installing TCL and Expect

[ccb85]

Hello

I have problem installing tcl with expect. I downloaded both packages from net and extracted to my desktop. Then i did ./configure and make on both, but i dont know how to run expect.

There is an expect executable, so i try ./expect. but it says "cannot open shared object file libexpect5-40.so" something. Why is this happening? I did the ./config --with-tcl=home/knoppix/Desktop/tcl5.11/unix so it shouldnt be a problem

One more question: How can i run expect?

Thanks.

[huaihaizi3]

yum -y install expect
Maybe you can try this way.
You'd better have a look at the README file if you still want to install expect from the source code!

[atreyu]

Yes, huaihaizi3 has it right. Install the package using your distro's package manager. If it is not yum, then perhaps it is apt-get or pacman, etc. - it depends on your distro (which is...?). You usually have to have a very good reason not to install common apps like expect/tcl via the tested software repositories available to you.