R help - Feb 2004 - Linux installation problem

Hello everyone,

I downloaded the latest Linux version of R and tried installing it, but 
during the installation process I found that this version of R requires tcl 
8.3 and tk 8.3.  The problem is that I've been unable to find Linux 
versions of tcl 8.3 and tk 8.3.  The only Linux versions of tcl/tk I've 
been able to find are 8.4.  Has anybody been successful in getting R to 
install on Linux recently, and if so can you please tell me where you got 
your tcl/tk 8.3?  Thanks very much.

Eric Evans

Eric Evans <eje4 at cornell.edu> writes:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I downloaded the latest Linux version of R and tried installing it,
> but during the installation process I found that this version of R
> requires tcl 8.3 and tk 8.3.  The problem is that I've been unable to
> find Linux versions of tcl 8.3 and tk 8.3.  The only Linux versions of
> tcl/tk I've been able to find are 8.4.  Has anybody been successful in
> getting R to install on Linux recently, and if so can you please tell
> me where you got your tcl/tk 8.3?  Thanks very much.
Binaries? If so, what platform? As far as I've seen the sources are
quite happy with everything newer than 8.1:

pd at linux:~/r-devel/BUILD> ldd library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.so
        libtcl8.4.so => /usr/lib64/libtcl8.4.so (0x0000002a95681000)
        libtk8.4.so => /usr/lib64/libtk8.4.so (0x0000002a95838000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib64/libX11.so.6
        (0x0000002a95a2f000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000002a95c43000)
  ....

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