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From: Peter Whincop 
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Subject: cecilia install problems
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Hi, sorry if for some reason this was posted two weeks ago: I didn't
receive it, nor did anyone reply. But a non-subscriber replied after
searching through the archive. So, here goes.

I cannot run xcec. I have installed it correctly, I believe. But trying to
execute it fails.

My system: p133, tons of everything, linux 2.0.29, xf86 (pretty recent),
and most crucilally, tcl8.0/tk8.0. My computer is generally
well-configured, sometimes after some effort to track down libraries and
stray or lost environment variables, but this one has stumped me.

Firstly, an application-specific error occurred: init.tcl could not be
found in certain directories. There seem to a few of these floating about
on my system (some are symbolic links, I think). So I found one and put it
in /home/library (and also tried a symbolic link), which I had to make,
being quite a strange dir to have to start with. I do not know if i found
the correct init.tcl, especially given there is one provided by cecilia (I
think; maybe it just got there somehow). The directories xcec wanted
init.tcl to be in were mostly tcl7.5 directories. I have tcl8.0. The blurb
on cecilia says it needs _at least_7.5. So 8.0 would seem to be acceptable.

Secondly, after my bluff at fixing the init.tcl problem, the next
application-specific init failure was "can't find a usable tk.tcl in the
following dirs: [list of tk4.1 dirs and /home/library]. I have tk8.0, and
supposed that it would also be acceptable. Why is my xcec looking for 4.1
and 7.5 in particular? Have I somehow told my computer they are my most
recent versions? I tried to correct this in the same extremely amateurish
way as for the init.tcl file: copy (or ln -s) into /home/library tk.tcl.
But the same error occurred, so my tk.tcl must be un"usable". This seems
unlikely as my tcl and tk installs went just fine. One or two geometry
type tests with tk failed; and one or two xauth-lock tests were skipped in
tcl.

Please help install this desperately needed gem!

Thanks,

Peter Whincop

PS--how many Linux/Cec users are out there; how many Linux/csounders are
there?


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